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Monday madness at SCOTUS: ACCA, confrontation and a Second Amendment sleeper

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this helpful SCOTUSblog post (which includes links to more materials), the Supreme Court on Monday has its biggest criminal justice argument day since ... I don't know when.  Here are the particulars: On Monday, the Court will release orders from the Justices? private conference last Friday. We will provide a link to the orders list as soon as it is available. Following the release of orders, the Court will hear argument in: Chambers v. United States (06-11206), on whether failure to report to prison is a ?violent felony? under the Armed Career Criminals Act. United States v. Hayes (07-608), on whether federal gun laws require a domestic relationship between an attacker and victim to qualify as a misdemeanor crime of ?domestic violence...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 09, 2008 (boomark / email).