More holiday season highlights

After having now watched over and over some great football highlights, I am inspired to assemble here some holiday season sentencing highlights.  As detailed below, the end of 2005 did not slow down the sentencing action in many areas:

STATE BLAKELY DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• The Blakely earthquake hits Vermont
• A Blakely threesome from the Oregon Supreme Court
• Reviewing Oregon's big Blakely rulings
• Blakely at 18 months: a recap of state high court rulings

BOOKER DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Will it be a happy new year for Jamie Olis?
• Plea deal for Enron CAO Causey
• Sentencing notes on CJ Roberts' first year-end report
• Recent sentencing rulings in the circuits
• Guideline enhancement data from USSC
• Amicus brief in crack sentencing appeal

DEATH PENALTY DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Too old and sick to die?
• The next high profile California capital case
• Perspective for another death penalty year
• A lesson in the death penalty, Texas style
• "The Eighth Amendment is a jurisprudential train wreck"

OTHER SENTENCING DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• A thorough review of GWB's pardon work
• The state of shaming punishments
• Making sure crime does not pay (in book profits)
• The importance and power of POs and PSRs

HIGHLIGHTS OF HIGHLIGHTS

• Gearing up for Alito hearings
• Holiday weekend highlights
• Major sentencing developments for first half of 2005
• Major sentencing developments for second half of 2005