SCOTUS grants cert on a bunch of criminal cases, including at least one possible exciting sentencing case
Over the weekend in this post, I flagged a bunch of interesting criminal cases flagged in this lengthy In Justice Today accounting of cert petitions to watch as the Supreme Court got back in action with its end-of-the-summer "long conference." Today, via this short order list, the Supreme Court reported out some of the results of its work at the long conference. Specifically, the court granted certiorari in 11 cases (three of which about military courts are consolidated). Interestingly, though I did not see any of the cases I have been watching on the "certiorari granted" order list, it seems at least five of the case that do appear on the latest order list involve criminal issues:
16-1027 COLLINS, RYAN A. V. VIRGINIA
16-1371 BYRD, TERRENCE V. UNITED STATES
16-1466 HAYS, KS V. VOGT, MATTHEW JACK D. (N.B.: "Justice Gorsuch took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.")
16-8255 McCOY, ROBERT L. V. LOUISIANA (N.B.: the "a writ of certiorari [is] limited to Question 1 presented by the petition")
16-9493 ROSALES-MIRELES, FLORENCIO V. UNITED STATES
Based on a too-quick bit of Google searching, it appears that the first two cases above deal with Fourth Amendment car searches, the Vogt case deals with Fifth Amendment procedure, McCoy is a state capital case seemingly dealing with right to counsel issues, and Rosales-Mireles is a federal sentencing appeal! I am hopeful that SCOTUSblog will soon have their usual terrific coverage of all of today's grants with links to the filings. I suspect that hard-core sentencing fans will be most interested in the final two cases listed above, but I will need to see the filings before I will know just how excited to get about these new cases on the SCOTUS docket.
Meanwhile, for all the cases in the cert pool being watched by others, we will need to wait until at least Monday morning to know more about their fate. For those rooting for cert grants, not being on today's order list is not a good sign. But a lot of cases get relisted after the long conference, and thus there is still a decent chance at least a handful more criminal cases of note will be added to the docket in the coming weeks.
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