Lots of intriguing reasonableness action in the circuits

My schedule this week has kept me from keeping up with all the Booker action in the circuits.  But, with a bit of time to catch up, I see three recent opinions discussing reasonableness review that seem worth noting:

• US v. Rivera, No. 05-1366 (1st Cir. May 19, 2006) (available here, AL&P notes here)
• US v. Toohey, No. 05-4688 (2d Cir. May 17, 2006) (available here, DotD notes here)
• US v. Morris, 05-1623 (6th Cir. May 19, 2006) (available here, DotD notes here)

Among this bunch, Morris is probably the most fun to read, in part because of a concurrence by Judge Clay that attacks the Sixth Circuit's adoption of a rebuttable presumption of reasonableness for within-guidelines sentences.

Some related posts on reasonableness review:

• Reasonableness review round-up . . . calling Justice Scalia
• Why a "presumption of reasonableness" is troubling
• The ugly look of reasonableness review
• Reasonable complaints about reasonableness review
• Tracking reasonableness review outcomes