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SCOTUS takes up three new criminal cases

By Douglas A. Berman

The Supreme Court today, as detailed in this SCOTUSblog post, took up three new federal criminal cases.  Though none of the cases seem to be blockbusters, they all merit watching in 2009.  Here are the basic thanks to Lyle Denniston's great reporting at SCOTUSblog: [T]he Court will decide whether an individual can be retried on charges on which a jury could not agree in an earlier trial in which the jury acquitted on other charges (Yeager v. U.S., 08-67), whether using a telephone or e-mail to buy drugs for personal use converts that minor possession crime into a felony, with heavier penalties (Abuelhawa v. U.S., 08-192), and whether a federal law imposing an enhanced sentence for firing a gun during a drug crime or other violent crime applies if the gun was fired accidentally or involuntarily (Dean v...continue to full post

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