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Mark your calenders for Monday, June 28, Second Amendment fans

By Douglas A. Berman

With the release of a ruling in Skilling and the other honest services cases (basics here) and also a fascinating AEDPA habeas ruling in Magwood (basics here), criminal justice fans now only await one final decision from the Justices this Term.  But it is a doozy: the McDonaldSecond Amendment incorporation case concerning state and local restrictions on gun rights.  And according to the Court, that opinion will be handed down on Monday, June 28, which will be the last day of the SCOTUS Term. Based on the authorship of the opinions that have been handed down, the folks at SCOTUSblog predict that Justice Alito is the main author of the main opinion in McDonald.  That prediction should make criminal justice fans especially eager and excited to learn on Monday what the Court says about the Second Amendment and the impact of Heller on the states...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 24, 2010 (boomark / email).