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Lots of SCOTUS sentencing action this morning

By Douglas A. Berman

SCOTUSblog is already reporting five cert grants from the Supreme Court and these opinions: US v. Marcus dealing with plain error review; government win US v. O'Brien dealing with elements and sentencing factors; defense win Jefferson v. Upton, a summary reversal of 11th Circuit ruling affirming a death sentence Robertson v. US ex rel. Watson, dismissed as improvidently granted (with an intriguing foursome of CJ Roberts and Justices Scalia, Kennedy and Sotomayor dissenting) Lots and lots of commentary soon to follow. UPDATE:  As detailed in this AP article, one of the cert grants, Skinner v. Switzer, 09-9000, will present the Justices with the question of "whether a Texas death row inmate should have access to evidence for DNA testing that he says could clear him of three murders...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 24, 2010 (boomark / email).