U.S. v. GARCIA

No. 00-1408.

240 F.3d 180 (2001)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Adalberto GARCIA, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. August Term, 2000.

Decided: February 20, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marjorie M. Smith, Englander & Smith, Tappan, N.Y., on the brief for defendant-appellant.

Greg D. Andres, Asst. U.S. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y. (Loretta E. Lynch, U.S. Atty., Peter A. Norling, Asst. U.S. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y., on the brief), for appellee.

Before: NEWMAN, LEVAL, and SACK, Circuit Judges.


JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal of a criminal sentence requires consideration of one of the questions arising in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000). The question is whether a jury, rather than a sentencing judge, must find a sentencing fact that affects only a defendant's Guidelines sentencing range within a statutory maximum, but...

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