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Interesting group of cert grants from SCOTUS

By Douglas A. Berman

As noted in this post last week, the SCOTUSblog folks had about a half-dozen criminal law cases on their list of ?Petitions to Watch.?  Though I have not yet figured out the fate of all of these watched cases, the list of four granted cases today have lots of interesting dimensions.  The basics are detailed here at SCOTUSblog: The Court has granted certiorari in four cases today: Free Enterprise Fund and Beckstead and Watts, LLP v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, et al. (08-861) Black, et al.  v. United States (08-876);  Wood v. Allen (08-9156) [limited to questions 1 and 2]; and Beard v. Kindler (08-992). I welcome comments on whether any of these cases should be of extra interest to sentencing fans. UPDATE:  This SCOTUSblog post provides these additional details on the three criminal case grants: The Court granted three [criminal] cases, including a review of the fraud conviction of a former media mogul, Canadian Conrad M...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 18, 2009 (boomark / email).