Thompson Memo. The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing today on the right to counsel in corporate investigations. The announcement with links to statements and video is here. Witnesses include Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty and former Attorney General Edwin Meese. Hope Yen of AP reports on the hearing here.

Booker. A story by Pamela A. MacLean from The National Law Journal discusses the problems the federal circuits are having with sentencing after last year's Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Booker.

Fitting nicely in the "what's the point" category, California congresswoman Maxine Waters has introduced a bill that would require Aids testing of federal prison inmates, unless the inmates want to opt-out to preserve their confidentiality according to a story in The Hill by Jeffery Young.

Topping the "best excuse" category of the week is an Associated Press story about a former Dallas city official arrested for public intoxication.

Texas Execution. Farley Charles Matchett is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection this evening in Texas. Matchett, who had prior arrests for theft, drug offenses and forgery, murdered two people and seriously injured one over a three day period in July 1991. Read the AP story here. Update: The execution was carried out as scheduled.