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Lots of criminal cases on the SCOTUSblog watch list

By Douglas A. Berman

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I see from this new post at SCOTUSblog that the folks over there have about a half-dozen criminal law cases among the group on their list of ?Petitions to Watch? that are up for consideration at the Justices? private conference on May 14. I suspect that only a few of the cases listed there will produce a cert grant, and I am rooting hard for the Supreme Court to take up Dunphy, a case noted here concerning the application of the crack retroactivity rules. I would be interested to hear if others have favorite criminal issues from the SCOTUSblog watch list or elsewhere lurking in the cert pool. On this front, consider this lengthy post from Crime & Consequences, titled "A Ninth Circuit Stinker Goes to SCOTUS." I think the Justices still have to grant a good number of new cases in order to have a full Fall of arguments, so I hope everyone will gear up their case pitches before we reach the usual summer slow-down.continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 11, 2009 (boomark / email).