Monday, December 10, 2007

Federal Sentencing Opinions Issued

The influential 7th Circuit judges, who were formally considered friends of limited government, Richard A. Posner and Frank Easterbrook got slammed by Justice Antonin Scalia today in the Court's two sentencing decisions, which I find delightful.

They had essentially ignored the precepts of the Booker decision (now what part of the term "advisory" do you not understand Mr. Easterbrook?) and their post-Booker sentencing work can now be deposited where it belongs: in the garbage.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/washington/10cnd-scotus.html?hp

http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2006/10/todays_booker_o.html

http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2006/09/seventh_circuit.html

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