The weekly wrap-up

The week just completed felt realtively quite, perhaps because the week before had the excitement of a SCOTUS nomination (which I discussed in many posts all linked here).  But, as detailed below, the week in fact did have no shortage of noteworthy developments.

SEX OFFENDER SENTENCING DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Iowa Supreme Court upholds broad sex offender residency restrictions
• More sex offender laws and restrictions in the works
• Latest sex offender idea: five-year minimum federal sentence for failing to register
• Sex offenders bills moving forward
• Intriguing reaction to sex offender panic

LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• State investigation into Sensenbrenner's letters
• Alliance for Justice urges ethics investigation over Sensenbrenner letters
• Fallout from Sensenbrenner's letters

CIRCUIT COURT DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Notable 3d Circuit footnote on constitutionality of SRA
• Fascinating sentencing day around the circuits
• DOJ seeking rehearing on consideration of state/federal disparity
• Potent comments on preserving Booker error

DISTRICT COURT DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Post-Booker resentencings
• Judge Kaplan addresses fast-track disparity
• Great opinion on local variations and other post-Booker issues
• Millennium bomber gets 22 years
• Interesting district court read (and evidence of post-Booker toughness)

OTHER SENTENCING DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• New report on "Race and Incarceration in Delaware"
• Proposing a distinctive response to Booker and Blakely
• More on Ohio's Blakely cases
• Will Atkins get the benefit of Atkins?