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Juve LWOP and animal porn get top billing as media discuss SCOTUS docket

By Douglas A. Berman

With the naming (finally!) of a new SCOTUS nominee, the press is now started to talk about the cases that Judge Sonia Sotomayor would be immediately facing if she soon becomes Justice Sotomayor.  The first two cases noted in this Reuters review should be very familiar to regular readers of this blog: Souter's retirement takes effect when the court term ends in late June. Obama has said he would like his choice to be approved by the Democratic-controlled Senate before the court returns to the bench in October after its summer recess.... For its coming term that begins in October, the court already has agreed to decide several major cases and also has pending appeals in a number of important cases. They include: * whether a sentence of life in prison for juveniles who commit crimes other than murder violated the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 27, 2009 (boomark / email).