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Top 10 sentencing stories of 2010

By Douglas A. Berman

Without too much reflection or enough sustained thought, I offer below my quick take on the Top 10 sentencing stories of 2010.  I urge readers to question my choices (or to ask for clarifications for why some of these items make the list and why others were left off): 10.  Congress's near-miss failure to pass the National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2010 9.  California's near-miss failure to legalize marijuana 8.  US Sentencing Commission gets new members and a new chair after lots of notable guideline amendments all while the Booker federal sentencing system soldiers on 7.  Republican take over of the US House of Representatives and many state governorship along with the emergence of a Right on Crime movement 6.  The continued stable(?) state use of the death penalty with 9 or 10 death sentences and 4 to 5 executions per month nationwide all while lethal injection litigation soldiers on 5...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 31, 2010 (boomark / email).