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"Sotomayor Seen As Moderate On Criminal Justice"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline given to this segment that ran this afternoon on NPR's All Things Considered.  Here is how the segment is described: Analysts see Judge Sonia Sotomayor as a moderate whose decisions in criminal cases rarely differ from those of her colleagues on the federal bench.  Some say her experience as a prosecutor and her record on the bench might make her more conservative than Justice David Souter on criminal justice issues. Some recent posts about Judge Sotomayor's criminal justice record: Will Judge Sotomayor make SCOTUS less friendly to criminal defendants? Some very early, very brief sentencing reflections on Judge Sotomayor A quick thought on Judge Sotomayor's sentencing work in Cavera Noting early unpublished sentencing opinions from Judge Sotomayor Notable background parallels between Judge Sotomayor and Justice Alito Any predictions on how a Justice Sotomayor would approach capital cases? Examining Judge Sotomayor's years as a New York state prosecutor  Examining Judge Sotomayor's criminal justice record continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 07, 2009 (boomark / email).