Busy Booker times in the circuits

As this post over at SCOTUSblog highlights, the Supreme Court is likely to be making lots of news throughout the rest of June.  But, as detailed in the posts listed below, the federal circuit courts have been very active on Booker fronts the last couple weeks.

Notable Booker rulings on reasonableness review:

• Two more reasonableness wins for the government in the First Circuit
• Fifth Circuit reverses another below-guideline sentence as unreasonable
• Strong Booker work from the Sixth Circuit
• Lots of Eighth Circuit sentencing action
• Important Tenth Circuit work on reasonableness
• Eleventh Circuit affirms above-guideline sentence
• Two more notable reasonableness wins for prosecutors

Notable Booker rulings on other issues:

• Major Third Circuit ruling on post-Booker burden of proof
• More on Grier and the post-Booker burden of proof
• Ninth Circuit adds nuance to post-Booker burdens of proof
• Report on Second Circuit crack reasonableness argument
• Crack(ed) dicta from Judge Easterbrook for the Seventh Circuit

Readers interested in circuit Booker action should also check out my (already dated) tracking of reasonableness outcomes, and also regularly check in on all of the federal defender blogs where I have seen lots of commentary on some cases noted above and others.