More Blakely insights for Californians

Now available on the Blakely page assembled by the Appellate Defenders, Inc. is this helpful memo, entitled “The Application of Blakely v. Washington to California Courts” and prepared by Superior Court Judges J. Richards Couzens and Tricia A. Bigelow.

The memo advises California’s courts of potential sentencing issues raised by Blakely, and suggests a reasonable course of action to address the potential effect of the decision pending further analysis by California’s appellate courts.