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Ninth Circuit issues long-awaited en banc opinion on post-Booker universe

By Douglas A. Berman

Resolving a set of long-pending en banc cases concerning post-Booker realities, the Ninth Circuit in US v. Carty, No. 05-10200 (9th Cir. Mar. 24, 2008) (available here), has given its account on post-Booker sentencing.  The Court's many notable bullet points provide something like a restatement of the post-Gall sentencing universe, which makes Carty a must-read for everyone involved in federal sentencing.

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 25, 2008 (boomark / email).