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Three intriguing SCOTUS cert grants on criminal justice issues

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this SCOTUSblog post, this morning the Supreme Court "issued an order list from last week?s Conference that included grants of certiorari, denials of certiorari, and an invitation for the Acting Solicitor General to file a brief expressing the views of the United States." The full order list is available here.  Three of the cert grants involve interesting criminal justice issues, as this cut-and-paste job from SCOTUSblog highlights: Bond v. United States (Granted); Docket: 09-1227 Issue(s): Whether a criminal defendant convicted under a federal statute has standing to challenge her conviction on grounds that, as applied to her, the statute is beyond the federal government?s enumerated powers and inconsistent with the Tenth Amendment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 12, 2010 (boomark / email).