Latest FSR issue on Blakely in the States

I am pleased to announce that another issue of the Federal Sentencing Reporter is at the press.  This latest issue shifts FSR  briefly away from the Booker beat — which we've covered in our last two issues examining "The Booker Aftershock" and "Is a Booker Fix Needed?" — and back to the Blakely beat.  Recall that, in the months after the Blakely decision, FSR produced three Blakely issues, which are discussed here and here and here.  (General information about ordering FSR is here and the journal can accessed electronically here.)   

The return to the Blakely beat has this latest FSR issue focused on the "State of Blakely in the States."  As you can see from the issue's contents, which are listed below, the amazing editorial team of Prof. Steve Chanenson and The Vera Institute's Dan Wilhelm has assembled a fantastic collection of original articles on how the Blakely earthquake has rumbled through the states. 

The materials in this FSR issue reinforce my sense that the story of Blakely in the states is even more conceptually rich and dynamic than the story of Booker in the federal system.  And, for a conceptual rich and dynamic overview of state Blakely matter, be sure to read this FSR issue's Editors' Observations, which can be downloaded below.

EDITORS’ OBSERVATIONS

• Steven L. Chanenson and Daniel F. Wilhelm, Evolution and Denial: State Sentencing after Blakely and Booker Download state_of_blakely_ed_obs.pdf

ARTICLES

• Don Stemen and Daniel F. Wilhelm, Finding the Jury: State Legislative Responses to Blakely v. Washington
• Dale G. Parent and Richard S. Frase, Why Minnesota Will Weather Blakely's Blast
• Ronald F. Wright, Blakely and the Centralizers in North Carolina
• Lenell Nussbaum, Sentencing in Washington after Blakely v. Washington
• Tom Lininger, Oregon's Response to Blakely
• Bennett Barlyn, Sentencing Law Under the Knife: Judicial Surgery, the New Jersey Supreme Court and State v. Natale
• David Louis Raybin, The Anticipated Resolution of the Blakely Split of Authority in the States: Will the United States Supreme Court Dance the Tennessee Waltz?
• Jonathan D. Soglin and J. Bradley O'Connell, Blakely, Booker, & Black: Beyond the Bright Line
• Tony Ortiz, The New Mexico Sentencing Commission's Legislative Proposal Subsequent to Blakely v. Washington