Dog days review

I have not done a weekly recap since this one at end of last month, so I suppose what follows below is more of a mid-month review.  And, perhaps befitting the dog days of summer, this abridged review of the past two weeks of posts shows that the sentencing action remains hot through August.

SUPREME COURT DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Roberts, the cert pool, and sentencing jurisprudence
• Justice Stevens speaks out against death penalty
• Judge Roberts on capital punishment
• SCOTUS is out of touch

STATE BLAKELY DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Cert petition in the Tennessee Blakely case Gomez
• Cert petition in a California Blakely case
• New Jersey applies Blakely (and Booker?)
• Recent Alaska Blakely decisions

BOOKER CIRCUIT COURT DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Amazing reasonableness debate from the 8th Circuit
• More on Harris from the 7th Circuit
• Ninth Circuit rejects ex post/due process limit on applying Booker remedy
• Sixth Circuit finds no problems with judicial factfinding for restitution orders
• Sixth Circuit ruling shows importance of burden of proof

BOOKER DISTRICT COURT DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Judge Adelman spotlights problems with mandatories
• Judge Weinstein on rehabilitation as a sentencing goal
• More post-Booker data from the USSC
• WorldCom sentencing wrap-up and reflections

DEATH PENALTY DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Updating the (declining) state of the death penalty
• Justice Stevens speaks out against death penalty
• Stevens, Roberts, Gonzales and the death penalty
• Atkins does not get the benefit of Atkins
• An engaging (but incomplete) habeas debate

OTHER SENTENCING DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Gonzales reiterates call for Booker fix
• Editorial against Gonzales' Booker fix
• Judge Pryor urging sentencing reforms in Alabama
• An engaging (but incomplete) habeas debate
• Martha agrees(?) to three more weeks of home confinement
• Great blog debate over residency restrictions