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SCOTUS starts 2010 with lots of sentencing stories pending

By Douglas A. Berman

The Supreme Court is back to in action Monday, and Tony Mauro has a preview of some of the biggest 2010 story lines in this piece headlined "High Court Returns to a Busy Schedule: As the new year begins, blockbuster opinions and maybe a retirement greet Supreme Court." Here are a few of the highlights, with an emphasis on criminal justice stories: It wasn't exactly a lost fall for the U.S. Supreme Court, but, as the justices don their robes for the first oral arguments of 2010 starting today, there is a sense that the term is just now beginning to take shape. Blockbuster opinions, riveting oral arguments and a possible retirement loom in the next six months, all promising to make the Court's first three months in session fade quickly from view...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 10, 2010 (boomark / email).