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Two notable end-of-year appeals to SCOTUS

By Douglas A. Berman

Thanks to How Appealing, I saw these two articles reporting on notable new sentencing appeals come from state officials to the US Supreme Court: From the San Jose Mercury News here, "Schwarzenegger makes last plea to U.S. Supreme Court in prison case" From the Louisville Courier-Journal here, "Sex-offender case appealed to U.S. Supreme Court" Because the Supreme Court has so far dodged the California prison litigation, I am not sure Schwarzenegger is likely to get the Justices to take the case up now.  Similarly, though the sex offender case from Kentucky presents SCOTUS with a first opportunity to consider sex offender residency restrictions, I have an inkling that the Justices may be inclined to GVR the Kentucky AG's appeal after the Court addresses various ex post facto issues in the pending Carr case (which concerns sex offender registration requirements)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 24, 2009 (boomark / email).