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Big(?) criminal justice week ahead as SCOTUS gets back to work

By Douglas A. Berman

The Supreme Court is back to work in earnest starting tomorrow morning, with these three criminal procedure case on tap for oral arguments Tuesday and Wednesday: US v. Tinklenberg, which concerns application of the the Speedy Trial Act (SCOTUSblog coverage here) Bond v. US, which concerns standing to challenge the constitutionality of a federal criminal statute on Tenth Amendment grounds (SCOTUSblog coverage here) Freeman v. US, which concerns eligibility for a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) when as sentence was imposed pursuant to a Rule 11(c)(1)(C) plea agreement (SCOTUSblog coverage here) Based on the number of amicus briefs filed and the nature of the issue, I expect Bond will get the most media attention in the days ahead...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 21, 2011 (boomark / email).