The week that was

It's time again for a weekly wrap-up.  You know the drill:

DISTRICT COURT BOOKER DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Judge Presnell assails DOJ (and pulls no punches)
• Can a post-Booker resentencing lead to a sentence increase?
• Reconsidering and resentencing
• Where the real Booker action can be found
• The more things change...
• Another high-profile Connecticut Booker variance

CIRCUIT COURT BOOKER DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• A musical summary of Booker appeals
• Same as it ever was...
• Judge Easterbrook spotlights fact/law distinction in prior conviction exception
• Third Circuit enforces appeal waiver post-Booker
• Further reflections on burdens of proof and acquitted conduct
• A dissent from circuit business as usual post-Booker
• 11th Circuit says juvenile offenses come within prior conviction exception

STATE BLAKELY DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Florida Supreme Court declares Apprendi is not to apply retroactively
• Two Oregon cases spotlight key Blakely issues
• Dancing around Gomez in New Jersey and Tennessee

SUPREME COURT DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• The weekly SCOTUS GVR report
• The waiting is the hardest part...
• Revised draft of Pondering Modern Sentencing Process

OTHER SENTENCING DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Fantastic reading around the blogsphere
• Constitutional challenge to AEDPA standards?
• Capital punishment in theory and practice
• Intriguing (high-profile) example of jury sentencing
• More perspectives on Massachusetts death penalty bill