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SCOTUS does a little spring crim law cleaning

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed over at SCOTUSblog, the Supreme Court was back in action today issuing one little opinion about jury selection procedures and an order list that included one cert grant in a capital habeas case and some Gall GVRs.  This AP story provides background on the new cert grant, and SCOTUSblog has the cert papers linked here. Though all this SCOTUS action is involves crim law, it still feels as though the Justices are still mostly clearing away docket debris in anticipation for the big rulings to come in this Term's more high-profile cases. Recent related post: Speculating about SCOTUS sleeper cases

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 12, 2008 (boomark / email).