Scary(?) late October sentencing highlights

October has been quite a sentencing month.  I recapped the first half of the month here, and now below I have taken advantage of today's extra hour to provide highlights from the second half:

BOOKER CIRCUIT DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• My amicus effort to support our troops (includes reasonableness brief)
• What exactly is the Sixth Circuit rehearing in Vonner?
• On Vonner, the en banc Sixth Circuit reasonableness case
• "Today's [Booker] opinion from Judge Posner is so truly bizarre and harmful that it took my breath away."

OTHER FEDERAL SENTENCING DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Members of Congress like judicial discretion ... when their friends are sentenced
• A great response to the recent up-tick in violent crime
• Crime, sentencing and politics
• Two decades of crack(ed) sentencing and More crack attention at two decades
• Why isn't there a prior good works guideline?

HIGH-PROFILE FEDERAL SENTENCING AND COMMENTARY

• High-profile terrorism lawyer to be sentenced today
• Lynne Stewart gets 28 months ... reasonable?
• Tastes great, more Skilling
• Skilling gets guideline sentence of 292 months

DEATH PENALTY DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Remarkable circuit judge speech on capital punishment at mass
• The insidious distraction of innocence (and death)
• Tracking the execution rate as lethal injection scrummages rage on
• NJ Supreme Court decides on Atkins procedures
• Busy times for state killing

SEX OFFENDER DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• The scattered law of sex offender residency restrictions
• California's sex offender residency restriction proposition
• In the SL&P mailbag: a book on sexual predator laws
• A new legal attack against local sex offender residency restrictions
• Sex offenders as our modern day witches