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Patrick Lett's case (and a few other notable sentencing cases) among "Petitions to Watch"

By Douglas A. Berman

I am very pleased to see that the remarkable legal story of (my client) Patrick Lett has earned his case a place over here at SCOTUSblog on the list of cert petitions that SCOTUS guru Tom Goldstein "has deemed to have a reasonable chance of being granted."  Here is the start of the discussion at SCOTUSblog, as well as some of the sentencing cases of note that appear on the list: Issues raised in our current list include district courts? ability to amend incorrect sentences, the constitutionality of appointments to a patent appeals board, the validity of the ?automatic companion? rule under the Fourth Amendment, the statute of limitations in securities fraud claims, whether state criminal convictions require jury unanimity, and many (many, many) others...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 19, 2008 (boomark / email).