Another interesting week in the sentencing world

Though not quite as eventful as last week (which, of course, started with the amazing manic Monday), the week just completed certainly had its share of sentencing highlights:

BOOKER DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Fourth Circuit addresses Booker retroactivity
• Is SCOTUS soon to take up Booker retroactivity?
• White-collar Booker breaks
• More intriguing white-collar anecdotes
• Important DC Circuit Booker opinion on alternative sentences
• Another interesting alternative sentence opinion
• Booker oldies but goodies

DEATH PENALTY DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• American cultures of life and cultures of death
• Reverberations from Birmingham News rejecting the death penalty
• A bit of death in the afternoon
• A referendum on current views of the death penalty?
• Death penalty headlines

STILL MORE ALITO ALITURE

• A terrific examination of Alito and criminal law
• Curious SCOTUS vote counting (and remembering that death and habeas are different)
• Alito and Feingold discuss the death penalty
• Hints about how a Justice Alito might view post-Booker players
• New insights on Alito and the post-Booker world

OTHER SENTENCING DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Another major SCOTUS morning
• Important and interesting doings in the House
• Michigan Blakely case to be argued on Tuesday
• Interesting Colorado opinion applying Blakely
• Will Libby get a pardon, sooner or later?