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Ninth Circuit finds 28-year "failure to register" sentence unconstitutional

By Douglas A. Berman

The last few weeks have hardly been a slow period for notable sentencing decisions from the federal circuit courts.  And today brings some intriguing rulings on federal sentencing or quasi-sentencing issues from the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Tenth and DC Circuit.  But the Ninth Circuit has the most significant ruling of this big batch of opinions ringing out this rocking 2008 sentencing year in the habeas case of Gonzales v. Duncan, No. 06-56523 (9th Cir. Dec. 30, 2008) (available here). Th read more

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 30, 2008 (boomark / email).