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Sentencing sleepers at start of sleepy SCOTUS term

By Douglas A. Berman

As suggested in new SCOTUS preview articles from Adam Liptak in the New York Times and Tony Mauro in Legal Times, there are no obvious blockbuster cases on the Supreme Court's docket as the Justice start their new Term this Monday.  Nevertheless, for sentencing fans, a few sleepers are already on the docket, and some additional sentencing cases seem likely to garner the Court's attention before the Term concludes next year. The sentencing sleepers that I am watching as the new term begins include: (1) Oregon v. Ice, which deals with Blakely's applicability to consecutive sentencing determinations; (2) Van de Kamp v. Goldstein, which deals with prosecutorial immunity, (3) Chambers v. United States, which deals with the application of the Armed Career Criminal Act, (4) United States v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 05, 2008 (boomark / email).