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Two great commentaries from the legal blogosphere

By Douglas A. Berman

Because there is too much great legal commentary in the blogosphere these days to keep up with it all, I have to highlight two recent posts that should not escape the eyes of sentencing fans.  First, this post at Judging Crimes has lots of great things to say about the importance of Judge Sotomayor's experience as a district judge (and other great insights).  Here is one amusing snippet: Appellate judges who don't first serve as trial judges are prone to stupid decisions.  Not because the judges themselves are stupid, of course, but because they literally don't know what they're doing. Example: Scalia insisting that his 2006 Davis decision imposed a constitutional test that was "objective and quite 'workable'."  After three years, that test has come to mean something different in every state -- literally, without exaggeration, different in each of the 50 states...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 02, 2009 (boomark / email).