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increases the punishment for previously convicted criminals.39 Sentenced offenders, as Krent argues, are hardly a politically appealing constituency. But
dissenters explained, “can be regarded as a denial that there was anything ‘fundamentally unfair’ about Cooper’s conviction and sentence, so that no
State Prisons, SENT’G PROJECT 3 (2016), https://www .sentencingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/The-Color-of-Justice-Racial-and -Ethnic
quotation from O’Connor’s majority opinion, Breyer’s ellipses and brackets focus on Breyer’s own interpretation— culminating in the last sentence
is not. As a result, the wealthy arrestee is less likely to plead guilty, more likely to receive a shorter sentence or be acquitted, and less likely
violated the Sixth Amendment jury right because it permitted judges to sentence individuals to death based on facts not found by a jury. Every Justice but
to refer strictly to their increased likelihood of facing crim- inal liability and harsher sentencing, as well as more loosely to encompass forms of
inconsistent with both the governing statute and the First Amendment,188 and Judge Tatel, writing a majority opinion joined by Judge Sentelle, analyzed
official conduct, or criminal mat- ters and other matters. In the very next sentence, Madison wrote: To determine then, whether the appropriate