Of interest around the blogosphere

A quick tour around the blogosphere reveals more than of few items of interest:

• Grits for Breakfast discusses here a capital case reversal where prosecutors improperly withheld a confession.  Capital Defense Weekly has more on the case here.

• Crime & Federalism details here the perils of federal plea bargaining.

• White Collar Crime Prof Blog here compares the sentence of former Representative Randy Cunningham (details here) to those of other notable white-collar federal defendants.

• The WSJ Blog reports here on the distinctive sentencing of Michael Rigas for his relatively small role in the Adelphia frauds.

• 3L Epiphany continues to do fascinating meta-blogging (background here) with new posts on the word "blog" and on the use of "legal blog" or "blawg" and on specialty law blogs.