A long weekend update

Anyone who took a long weekend missed a lot of news and commentary appearing since the close of business on Thursday.  Here are some highlights:

CIRCUIT COURT BOOKER DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Is the Booker plain error split now finally cert. worthy?
• 8th Circuit decides Pirani plain error en banc
• Third Circuit clarifies(?) its unique approach to Booker pipeline cases
• A reasonable(?) approach by the Fourth Circuit

DISTRICT COURT BOOKER DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Lots of interesting reports from the sentencing front lines
• USSC FY 2003 data now available!
• Lil' help for Lil' Kim

STATE BLAKELY DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• New Jersey AG wants Gomez to spread to the Garden State
• The tension between the prior conviction exception and juvenile offenses

• Indiana's Blakely fix is now law

DEATH PENALTY DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• A more perfect death penalty in Massachusetts?
• Dynamic death penalty debates

SEX OFFENDER SENTENCING DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• 8th Circuit approves broad sex offender exclusion statute
• Sex (offenders) in the city