The Top Ten Things I Learned From
Apprendi, Blakely, Booker, Rita, Kimbrough and Gall

Richard G. Kopf

United States District Judge, District of Nebraska

As a district judge, I read with interest, and even tried to follow, the Supreme Court’s sentencing opinions in Apprendi, Blakely, Booker, Rita, Kimbrough and Gall. With tongue partly in cheek, here, in descending order, are the top ten things I learned from those missives:

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