Sentence examples for factual determinations from inspiring English sources

But the decision opens the door to challenges to sentencing procedures in many other contexts, including federal drug sentences and even the structure of the federal sentencing guidelines themselves, in which the jury determines guilt and the judge makes many essentially factual determinations that lead to the final sentence.

Those factual determinations are plainly correct.

Four days later, another ruling: juries, not judges, must make the factual determinations supporting death sentences.

They said trial judges could decide that the factual determinations had been "harmless error".

Appeals courts typically say they require proof that a judge's factual determinations were "clearly erroneous" to overturn them.

'This case is not an ordinary habeas case, and the general rules regarding factual determinations in ordinary habeas proceedings have no bearing here,' the government said.

The law's intent is clear: the report should be a factual determination, not a policy statement.

"We will look at that, try to make some kind of factual determination and then decide what steps, if any, need to be taken".

Responding to Mr. Burton's appeal, Burton v. United States, No. 99-9902, the Solicitor General's office told the court that imposing a life sentence based on a factual determination by the judge was "plain error" under the Apprendi decision.

Under a 2000 decision, in Apprendi v. New Jersey, any factual determination that allows a sentence to be increased beyond the statutory maximum must be proved to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.

The justices ruled in 2000 that any factual determination that allows a sentence to be increased beyond the statutory maximum must be proved to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.