Blog Round-Up

Prawfsblog has had a series of posts regarding the Supreme Court’s role in error-correction. A good entry point to the discussion is here.

Former U.S. Soldier Steve Green allegedly committed a murder while in Iraq, and it has some Iraqis clamoring for him to be tried in Baghdad; Prawfsblog has another post (here) about what the Supreme Court’s precedents have to say about the legality of such an extradition.

The blog Crime and Consequences has a statistical analysis of the criminal cases from October Term 2005 here.

Sentencing Law and Policy has more end-of-term thoughts about criminal matters here, this time on the non-capital sentencing developments that occurred in OT2005.

Dan Filler of Concurring Opinions writes a response (here) to Justice Scalia’s claim in Kansas v. Marsh that no innocent people have been executed by the United States. In another post at Concurring Opinions, Eduardo Penalver wonders if Justice Kennedy has moved noticeably to the left since Justice O’Connor’s departure; you can read it here.

Also, even though Slate is not precisely a blog, that site has two round-up-worthy articles about the Supreme Court. Emily Bazelon refuses to let the Court’s largely overlooked ruling in Clark v. Arizona go by without comment; her thoughts on the decision can be read here in an article called “Crazy Law.” Finally, on a somewhat lighter note, Conor Clarke wonders here if Justice Scalia has “lost his mojo.”