The Supreme Court issued two opinions Tuesday morning, both of them striking down lower court opinions that had favored prosecutors. Over at the Sentencing Law and Policy blog, professor Doug Berman is already proclaiming that the decisions offer further proof that the Court is the “most pro-defendant appellate court in the nation on sentencing issues.”
In Chambers v. United States, with Justice Stephen Breyer writing for a unanimous Court, the justices agreed that a conviction on the charge of “failure to report” to prison is not the kind of prior “violent felony” conviction that triggers a 15-year mandatory prison sentence for someone found guilty of illegal possession of a firearm.
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