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S.Ct. grants cert. in Booker and Fanfan

By Tom Lincoln

The Court has granted the two petitions filed by the Acting Solicitor General in Booker and Fanfan, as well as an expedited briefing schedule, with consolidated Oral Argument set for October 4th. See today's Order List here. The questions presented for review were not reformulated, as respondents and amici NACDL/NAFD had suggested. And what about Pineiro (5th Cir.), Bijou (4th Cir.), the certified questions from the 2d Cir. in Penaranda, as well as the petition for rehearing in Blakely v. Washington? The Court has not acted on any of these one way or another.

Full post as published by Puerto Rico Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers on August 02, 2004 (boomark / email).