The wait continues: no Booker and Fanfan!

Despite the widely shared belief when cert. was granted in August that the Supreme Court would resolve the post-Blakely fate of the federal sentencing guidelines this year, it now appears that we will have to wait until at least January for a decision in Booker and Fanfan.  The Court was busy today, issuing a number of opinions as detailed by SCOTUSblog here, but no Booker and Fanfan. 

I will have a good deal of commentary about the lack of a decision later today, and in the meantime, let the punditry, the speculating and the prognosticating continue.