Big Ten Booker tour continues

I will likely be off-line throughout the day as I travel to the University of Illinois College of Law to participate in this terrific “roundtable” organized by Professor Margareth Etienne entitled “The Impact of Booker: A Dialogue Between Scholars and Practitioners.”  (This trip rounds out my Big Ten Booker month after my sojourn to Minnesota Law School a few weeks ago; discussed here and here.)  The participants and plans for the Illinois roundtable have me very excited, and I hope late tonight to report on what I learn in Champaign.

In the meantime, as is my practice, I have assembled below links of major posts from what has already been a pretty busy week:

BOOKER FIX DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY (see also links here)

• The judges speak out against HR 1528
• The litigation mess argument against H.R. 1528

DISTRICT COURT BOOKER DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Appeal waivers in the wake of Booker
• In praise of the District of Maine
• Noteworthy district and circuit Booker decisions
• A manual of Booker defense strategies

APPELLATE COURT BOOKER DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• SCOTUS debates (in footnotes) Blakely/Booker pipeline issue
• The 2d Circuit addresses more pipeline issues and the scope of the prior conviction exception
• A quick review of more Booker circuit action
• 4th Circuit speaks again on plain error
• King has returned to the Third Circuit
• Pondering the future of the plain error mess

STATE SENTENCING BLAKELY DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• The saga of Blakely in Tennessee continues
• State of state Blakely fixes and high court rulings
• Indiana’s brewing Blakely fix

OTHER SENTENCING DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• The same ole story from SCOTUS
• More evidence of the decline of death
• The ever-growing prison population
• Capital case chronicles
• Computer program suggests arbitrariness of death penalty