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Lots of crime (and some punishment) in big pile of cert grants from SCOTUS long conference

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this post at SCOTUSblog, the Supreme Court this morning granted certiorari in fourteen new cases. The full orders list is here, and I think more than a third of the cases involve criminal justice issues: Kentucky v. King, concerning exigent circumstances (opinion below) US v. Tinklenberg, concerning speedy trial rights (opinion below) Bullcoming v. New Mexico, concerning Confrontation Clause rights (opinion below) Freeman v. US, concerning crack sentence reduction authority (opinion below) Sykes v. US, concerning application of Armed Career Criminal Act (opinion below) Freedman and Sykes are the cases that should most interest sentencing fans. Neither is a blockbuster-in-waiting, but both should provide some of the new (and old) Justices to showcase their current thinking on various federal sentencing issues.continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 28, 2010 (boomark / email).