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New article looking at post-Booker sentencing appeals

By Douglas A. Berman

Though I have just barely begun my post-vacation catch-up reading, this new piece appearing on SSRN is going to the top of the reading pile.  The piece by Carissa Byrne Hessick and F. Andrew Hessick III, which covers one of my favorite (and one of the most important) post-Booker issues of debate, is titled simply "Appellate Review of Sentencing Decisions."  Here is the abstract: In Booker v. United States, the Supreme Court granted district courts broad discretion in imposing sentences in an effort to create a sentencing scheme complying with the Sixth Amendment.  At the same time, however, to achieve the sentencing uniformity intended by Congress, the Court authorized circuit courts to review sentences for reasonableness...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 12, 2008 (boomark / email).