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Lots of criminal justice action from SCOTUS, including a sentencing per curiam

By Douglas A. Berman

With all the executive branch excitement this week, I forgot that the courts are still the place to go for the best criminal justice action.  And, to my pleasure and surprise, as reported here and hereat SCOTUSblog, the Supreme Court has lots of this action with arguments in some criminal justice cases and the release of a number of decisions in previously argued cases. But what has me most excited is the release of a per curiam opinion in Spears v. United States(08-5721), a sentencing case up from the Eighth Circuit that did not have argument.  Here are the basics on the ruling from Lyle Denniston: The Court also released a per curiam opinion in Spears v. United States (08-5721), a sentencing guidelines case.  The opinion is here. The Chief Justice wrote a dissenting opinion, joined by Justice Alito...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 21, 2009 (boomark / email).