Off-line for family time

A trip to the in-laws (who are not — gasp! — wired) means blogging will likely be light perhaps until the latter part of next week.  Fortunately, sentencing March madness seems to be calming down a bit — the whirlwind events from earlier this month are linked here and here and here — although the links below reveal that the times are still eventful:

BOOKER DISTRICT COURT DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• District judge reads Shepard to impact post-Booker sentencing
• A potent argument for Apprendi's retroactivity
• All hail the latest USSC post-Booker data
• Post-Booker above-range sentences
• Rowland wrap-up

BOOKER CIRCUIT COURT DEVELOPMENTS

• Anyone counting all the Booker remands and affirmances?
• Notable affirmances in the 10th and 11th Circuits
• Lots and lots more Booker circuit action
• Plain error patterns persist
• DC Circuit joins the plain error fun

STATE BLAKELY DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Alaska's Blakely fix is now law
• The Blakely mess in Ohio hits the papers
• Maryland's developing Blakely fix
• New Jersey's view of Smylie and Shepard
• Pondering the state Blakely pipeline

OTHER SENTENCING NEWS AND COMMENTARY

• A potent argument for the death penalty
• Concerns about (and blogsphere buzz on) DP paper
• Ralph Blakely sentenced again
• Lots more SCOTUS Booker GVRs
• How will SCOTUS frame the issue in Cutter?