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Another ACCA case and the Baze aftermath from SCOTUS

By Douglas A. Berman

Lyle Denniston in this post at SCOTUSblog provides a report on the SCOTUS order list this morning, which includes yet another ACCA cert grant and some of the post-Baze fall-out:The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to rule on the government?s power to impose ?anti-dumping? import fees on foreign goods that are re-manufactured from U.S. raw materials, and returned to the U.S. at a low price.  The Court also granted a second case, testing whether a failure to report to prison that leads to a conviction for escaspe can be the basis for enhanced sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act. In a series of orders following up its ruling last week allowing states to use the lethal injection method of capital punishment, the Court simply denied review of 11 appeals by death-row inmates...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 21, 2008 (boomark / email).