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High court takes up sentencing factors case (access required)

Posted: 7:53 pm Mon, January 14, 2013
By Lawyers USA
Kimberly Atkins

In a case that raises the question of whether judges or juries should decide factors that could trigger an increase in the minimum sentence, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed reluctant to shake up a sentencing scheme that Congress and the courts have relied upon for more than a decade.

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