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Two notable (and very different) departures for top lawyers

By Douglas A. Berman

This afternoon brings these two notable (and very different) lawyer departure stories: Paul Clement To Step Down as Solicitor General Marc Dann resigns as [Ohio's] attorney general Though both stories are big news for a host of reasons, I think there are significant sentencing angles worth considering.  How the SG's office approaches federal sentencing law for the rest of 2008 could have a significant impact on the work of the Supreme Court and lower circuit courts in a still-uncertain post-Gall universe.  And how a new Ohio AG approaches state capital punishment issues could have a significant impact on national death penalty debates (in a swing state that will surely gets lots of attention from the fall). Though I doubt few others will obsess about the impact of these distinct departures on sentencing issues, SL&P readers are urged to make all sorts of wild predictions (and suggest replacements) in the comments.continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 14, 2008 (boomark / email).