U.S. Supreme Court
Jan. 16, 2009
Stepping Back, U.S. Justices Defer to Judges on Sentencing
The U.S. Supreme Court held Wednesday that judges, not juries, get to decide whether sentences run consecutively or concurrently.
Daily Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON - Stepping back from its recent trend of giving juries more say over sentencing, the U.S. Supreme Court held Wednesday that judges get to decide whether sentences run consecutively or concurrently. In a close 5-4 ruling in a case out of the Supreme Court of Oregon, the court held that the long-standing precedent, dating back to English common law, of letting judges make that call does not v...
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