In like a lion, out like a lamb?

As I predicted here, with the Supreme Court's decisions in Roper and Shepard and other major lower court rulings, March proved to be an exciting sentencing month (especially the first few weeks).  Some of the whirlwind events from earlier this month are linked here and here and here and here, and below I link some of the month's concluding developments:

BOOKER CIRCUIT COURT DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• 4th Circuit considers alternative sentences
• 8th Circuit affirms above-range sentence
• A very busy Booker day in the circuits
• The devil is in the plain error detail

SUPREME COURT DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Yesterday's SCOTUS action
• Supreme Court indirectly considers supermax prison
• Reports on the Medellin argument
• SCOTUS grants cert. in a capital case and has still more GVRs

OTHER BOOKER AND BLAKELY DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• An overview of the post-Booker world
• State debates over whether to Blakely-ize or Booker-ize
• Assessing high profile sentences post-Booker

OTHER SENTENCING NEWS AND COMMENTARY

• The intersection of sex offenses and juvenile offenders
• 25 years too long for failure to register
• Colorado Supreme Court troubled by mixing sentencing and the Bible