Jury findings for longer sentences
Marcus Roland Maye v. Florida
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Marcus Roland Maye’s petition asks whether a sentencing error can be treated as harmless when a law required a judge, rather than a jury, to find facts that increased his mandatory sentence.
- What's at stake
- The unresolved issue is whether harmless-error review applies to the sentencing error Maye alleges.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
Maye's petition says the sentencing statute required a judge, not a jury, to find by a preponderance of the evidence facts that increased his mandatory sentence.
Question presented
Whether harmless-error review applies to a sentence imposed under a statute that facially violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments by requiring the trial court, rather than the jury, to find by a preponderance of the evidence the facts that increase the defendant’s mandatory sentence?
What happens next
The Court must decide whether to hear the case. No argument date or decision timing is available.
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Sources
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