SCOTUS issue of Harvard Law Review covers all the sentencing cases
The November issue of the Harvard Law Review is always dedicated to a review of the past Supreme Court Term, and the full contents are now available online here. I was pleased to see that just about every sentencing ruling from the past SCOTUS Term gets discussed in the student commentary, and here is some of what you can find in the august HLR pages:
- Sixth Amendment — Allocation of Factfinding in Sentencing: Cunningham v. California
- Sixth Amendment — Federal Sentencing Guidelines — Presumption of Reasonableness: Rita v. United States
- Armed Career Criminal Act — Definition of “Violent Felony”: James v. United States
- Eighth Amendment — Death Penalty — Execution of the Presently Incompetent: Panetti v. Quarterman
- Sixth Amendment — Death Qualification Decisions: Uttecht v. Brown
- Sixth Amendment — Ineffective Assistance of Counsel: Schriro v. Landrigan
- Eighth Amendment — Death Penalty — Consideration of Mitigating Evidence: Abdul-Kabir v. Quarterman; Brewer v. Quarterman