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SCOTUS appoints former Alito clerk to defend Eighth Circuit's work in Pepper

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this new post by Lyle Denniston over at SCOTUSblog, the "Supreme Court on Thursday named a New York City lawyer and former Supreme Court clerk to argue the side of a criminal sentencing case that the federal government normally would defend."   Here are the basics: The government ... has sided with the prison inmate challenging his sentence in Pepper v. U.S. (09-6822) ? a case granted review near the end of last Term and not yet scheduled for oral argument.  At issue in the case is whether, under federal law, a judge imposing a new sentence after an earlier one was set aside is barred from reducing the sentence as a way to give the individual credit for having made efforts to rehabilitate himself after the initial sentence was imposed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 22, 2010 (boomark / email).