Add to ORKGIn Blakely v. Washington, the United States Supreme Court held that Washington\u27s state criminal sentencing procedure did not comply with the defendant\u27s Sixth Amendment jury trial guarantee. A criminal defendant has the right to have a jury decide all facts legally essential to punishment. This decision is important for its impact on criminal sentencing procedures, especially regarding its implications for the federal sentencing guidelines
This article reviews the Blakely decision and the Washington Legislature\u27s response in S.B. 5477....
In Blanton v. City of North Las Vegas, the Supreme Court set forth the definitive standard for disti...
The Sixth Amendment guarantees criminal defendants a trial before a jury. Until the Supreme Court de...
Federal criminal sentencing in the wake of Blakely v. Washington is, to put it charitably, a mess. I...
This Article is, in effect, the second half of the author\u27s argument against the Supreme Court\u2...
This Note begins by briefly laying out the evolution of criminal sentencing over the past century. I...
The Supreme Court held that, as originally written, the Federal Sentencing Guidelines required judge...
For some defendants, sentencing may be even more harrowing than a determination of guilt or innocenc...
By declaring that sentence-enhancing facts must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt, the S...
This encyclopedia entry summarizes the pendulum-swings that led the Supreme Court in Apprendi v. New...
The Founding Fathers thought the jury-trial right was so fundamental to our system of justice that t...
Is a defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to a trial by jury violated when a sentencing judge considers...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2016 decision in Hurst v. Florida, which struck down Florida’s capital sent...
On June 24, 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Blakely v. Washington, a case that invalidated the ...
This Article argues that the line of Supreme Court Sixth Amendment jury right cases that began with ...
This article reviews the Blakely decision and the Washington Legislature\u27s response in S.B. 5477....
In Blanton v. City of North Las Vegas, the Supreme Court set forth the definitive standard for disti...
The Sixth Amendment guarantees criminal defendants a trial before a jury. Until the Supreme Court de...
Federal criminal sentencing in the wake of Blakely v. Washington is, to put it charitably, a mess. I...
This Article is, in effect, the second half of the author\u27s argument against the Supreme Court\u2...
This Note begins by briefly laying out the evolution of criminal sentencing over the past century. I...
The Supreme Court held that, as originally written, the Federal Sentencing Guidelines required judge...
For some defendants, sentencing may be even more harrowing than a determination of guilt or innocenc...
By declaring that sentence-enhancing facts must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt, the S...
This encyclopedia entry summarizes the pendulum-swings that led the Supreme Court in Apprendi v. New...
The Founding Fathers thought the jury-trial right was so fundamental to our system of justice that t...
Is a defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to a trial by jury violated when a sentencing judge considers...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2016 decision in Hurst v. Florida, which struck down Florida’s capital sent...
On June 24, 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Blakely v. Washington, a case that invalidated the ...
This Article argues that the line of Supreme Court Sixth Amendment jury right cases that began with ...
This article reviews the Blakely decision and the Washington Legislature\u27s response in S.B. 5477....
In Blanton v. City of North Las Vegas, the Supreme Court set forth the definitive standard for disti...
The Sixth Amendment guarantees criminal defendants a trial before a jury. Until the Supreme Court de...