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SCOTUS cert grants: Guns, sex offenders, and sentencing factors ... oh my!

By Douglas A. Berman

Reviewing (thanks to SCOTUSblog) the details of the ten cert grants announced by the Supreme Court this morning (basics here and here), I cannot help but feel a bit like a legal Dorothy heading through a jurisprudence thicket on the ways to learn what the Wizards of SCOTUS will have to say on some of the hottest legal topics for sentencing fans.  Specifically, these there grants as described at SCOTUSblog are huge news for anyone involved in modern sentencing law and policy issues: Docket: 08-1301Title: Carr v. United StatesIssue: Whether a person may be criminally prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. § 2250for failure to register when the defendant?s underlying offense and travel in interstate commerce both predated the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act?s enactment ; whether the Ex Post Facto Clause precludes prosecution under § 2250(a) of a person whose underlying offense and travel in interstate commerce both predated SORNA?s enactment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 30, 2009 (boomark / email).