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questions, although, as discussed below, the Court has sent some signals as to how to frame the appropriate level of generality. Where history is not
can “lose” their right to vote, hold political office, or serve on a jury for a specified sentencing period—or permanently. Just as the Supreme Court
1376 (2012). 31. See, e.g., Stephanos Bibas, Judicial Fact-Finding and Sentence Enhancement in a World of Guilty Pleas, 110 YALE L.J. 1097, 1150 (2001
general and for death sentence cases. I Alton Coleman’s case is hardly the most sympathetic one on death row. In 1986, he was sentenced to death for
sufficient one. Many convicted of murder are not sentenced to death, and not only because of the capricious nature of sentencing juries or the
sentencing law. Four years ago in Alleyne v. United States,13 Justice Thomas wrote an opinion for the Court that overruled Harris v. United States14 in
be sentenced. If the sentencing budget is per offense type, then the judge will have a budget of twenty years to sentence the ten violators of A and
Repre- sentatives 37-49 (2005); Kenneth A. Shepsle, Dysfunctional Congress?, 89 B.U. L. Rev. 371, 380-83 (2009); and Katrina M. Wyman, Property in
federal sexual offenders subject to mandatory minimum sentences rose from five percent in 2001 to fifty-one percent in 2010. Georgia provides an
was reprimanded and told he would suffer serious consequences if he did it again; after the second time, the university sent him for counseling but