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The Heinz sentencing year: 2009 all about anticipation...

By Douglas A. Berman

For my last post of 2009, I will recap the year in sentencing by showing my age and referencing the classic Heinz ketchup ads with the Carly Simon song "Anticipation."  Specifically, my basic take on 2009 as a year in sentencing is that nothing all that dramatic, dynamic or consequential happened, but a lot of potentially dramatic, dynamic or consequential events have been teed up for 2010.   For example, the Supreme Court has granted cert and/or heard argument on an array of very significant sentencing cases on issues ranging from the constitutionality of juve LWOP to the reach and application of Blakely and Booker, ranging from the effect of defense lawyer?s wrong advice on the collateral consequences of a guilty plea to various challenges to various new federal sex offender laws...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 01, 2010 (boomark / email).