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Jury must decide criminal fines, high court says (access required)

Posted: 12:19 pm Fri, July 6, 2012
By Dolan Media Newswires

Like other factors that increase a criminal defendant’s sentence, facts that determine the amount of criminal fines imposed on a defendant must be decided beyond a reasonable doubt by a jury, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled at the end of the term in a 6-3 decision.
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