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Looking ahead to SCOTUS docket dynamics

By Douglas A. Berman

Even though there was a record low number of decisions this past Term, the Supreme Court had something for nearly everyone interested in criminal justice issues.  Gall and Kimbrough and Irizarry provided federal sentencing fans with a lot of consider, Baze and Kennedy kept death penalty debates heated, Danforth and Medellin and Boumediene covered great fed courts issues, and there were also a number of large and small statutory interpretation and criminal procedure issues addressed. Next Term, as Tony Mauro highlights in this terrific Legal Times article, the Court seems poised to have a heavier docket and appears eager to do more work earlier in the SCOTUS season.  Notably, though, with the exception of the Hayes gun case and the Ice consecutive sentencing case, the Court's criminal justice docket for next Term seems to pale in comparison to the Term just completed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 03, 2008 (boomark / email).