A week+ to remember

As if October wasn't exciting enough (as detailed here and here), the first part of November has produced many memorable sentencing moments.  Here are just some of the highlights:

ELECTION-RELATED SENTENCING AND COMMENTARY

• How could and will this election impact federal sentencing policy?
• A sentencing view of election day
• Figuring out election results for sentencing fans
• The big other branch questions after the election
• FAMM's view of the new political lanscape

CLAIBORNE AND RITA DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• SCOTUS to take up Booker reasonableness!!
• SCOTUS Booker questions presented ... and more questions
• How many amici briefs will there be in Claiborne and Rita?
• How do Cunningham and Claiborne and Rita intersect?
• The facts and decisions in Claiborne and Rita
• The district court sentencing in Claiborne and cert briefing
• Lovely Rita, SCOTUS case...

OTHER SCOTUS SENTENCING DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Oral argument in James ACCA case
• Oral argument in Burton retroactivity case
• Latest OSJCL issue with lots of sentencing coverage

SEX OFFENDER DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• California's new sex offender law enjoined
• More on Proposition 83 in California
• Is GPS tracking a better way?

OTHER BOOKER DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Fanfan's guideline sentence affirmed by First Circuit
• A Booker pair from the Third Circuit
• Seventh Circuit reverses another below-guideline sentence
• Tenth Circuit affirms two above-guideline sentences
• Pondering the USSC's upcoming crack/powder hearing
• A prosecutorial perspective on Booker

DEATH PENALTY DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Could Ohio and Wisconsin chart a path to a better death penalty?
• California's defense of its lethal injection protocol
• A new world of death penalty politics?
• More on the modern politics of the death penalty
• The federal death penalty in America's paradise