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Back to reasonableness jurisprudence after all the football fun

By Douglas A. Berman

Though OJ and Plaxico make it dangerously easy to start thinking I run a sports blog, I will close this crazy week by reporting on a report of the most notable court decision of the week.  Thanks to law.com, everyone can access here Mark Hamblett's report in the New York Law Journal about the important Cavera decision (discussed here yesterday). The NYLJ article, headlined "Second Circuit Approves Sentencing Bump for Urban Weapons Trafficking," starts this way: The wide-ranging discretion in federal sentencing given to district judges by the U.S. Supreme Court allows a tougher prison term to a gun offender in New York City than in other parts of the country, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday. I have only had time to consume the majority opinion by (my former boss) Judge Guido Calabresi in Cavera...continue to full post

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