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Any thoughts on top sentencing stories for 2010 ... and 2011?

By Douglas A. Berman

If time, energy and family allow, I will likely do a post in the next few days in which I review my top 10 sentencing stories for 2010.  A couple of the top 10 entries are pretty obvious, such as the passage of the Fair Sentencing Act by Congress and the Supreme Court's Eighth Amendment ruling in Graham v. Florida.  But there are lots of other top possibilities, ranging from the near-miss pot legalization ballot initiative in California to the news of reductions in state prison populations to the emergence of Right on Crime. As I look back and reflect on my own top 10 for 2010, I encourage readers to do the same and also to share their thoughts via the comments to this post.  Relatedly, as the headline of this post hints, I am already starting to look ahead to what may be brewing as top stories for next year...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 29, 2010 (boomark / email).