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America. Freedom. Most Americans probably believe that the government must first convict you of a crime before it can impose a sentence on you for that crime. This is incorrect: When federal prosecutors throw a bunch of charges at someone but the jury convicts on only some of those charges, a federal judge can still sentence the defendant on the charges for which he was acquitted. In fact, the judge can even consider crimes for which the defendant has never been charged. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Jones v. U.S., a case that would have addressed the issue... Interestingly, an unlikely lineup of Supreme Court justices filed a rare dissent to the Court’s refusal to hear Jones. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the dissent, and was joined by Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 05:46:20 +0000

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