Long weekend in review

Counting Friday afternoon as part of the long weekend, there has been a remarkable amount of sentencing activity that might (or might not) make our former Presidents proud.  Here are some topical highlights:

SCOTUS DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Mark your SCOTUS calenders
• Exploring possibilities in the SCOTUS state Blakely cases
• What of the lack of re-argument in the SCOTUS capital cases?

BOOKER DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Reasonableness review round-up . . . calling Justice Scalia
• A reasonableness double shot from the Fifth Circuit
• Tenth Circuit embraces presumption of reasonableness
• Plain error on plain error in the First Circuit?

DEATH PENALTY DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Schwarzenegger denies clemency in Morales case
• Back to the lethal injection scrum in Morales
• Ninth Circuit rejects efforts to block California execution
• SCOTUS lets California execution go forward

OTHER DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Teen crime, adult time in Colorado
• More on teen crime, adult time in Colorado
• A movie about the federal sentencing guidelines?
• New scholarly law blog on launchpad