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Effective review of Spears ruling

By Douglas A. Berman

Though it has been an historic week, I am pleased to be able today to remind sentencing fans of perhaps the most surprising event in the last few days: the summary reversal victory by a federal sentencing defendant in Spears.  Helpfully, local coverage here and here of the role played by Baylor Law Professor Mark Osler ensures that this important sentence story does not get completely lost in all the week's other exciting happenings. Recent related posts: Lots of criminal justice action from SCOTUS, including a sentencing per curiam Dueling with Spears (aka digesting Spears) An insider's reaction to the SCOTUS summary reversal in Spears

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 23, 2009 (boomark / email).