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US Sentencing Commission regional hearing in Chicago next week

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this brief public notice, the US Sentencing Commission has another one of its regional public hearings on tap for next week.  This fourth regional public hearing is scheduled for Sept 9-10, 2009, in Chicago will be held in the Ceremonial Courtroom of the Everett M. Dirksen United States Courthouse. As detailed in this official agenda, a fascinating group of invited witnesses are scheduled to testify regarding federal sentencing policy, including famed US Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald who is known well from his prosecution of Scooter Libby and Rod Blagojevich.  The panel that seems especially worth attending is the one providing a "View from the Appellate Bench" and which has Judges Danny Boggs and Jeffrey Sutton of the Sixth Circuit and Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook of the Seventh Circuit testifying about their views on the post-Booker world...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 03, 2009 (boomark / email).