Based on Current Interpretation of the Sixth Amendment Jury Trial

question 3

Multiple Choice

Based on current interpretation of the Sixth Amendment jury trial right, which of the following facts does not have to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, just like an element of the crime?

• A) The fact that the offender "brandished" a weapon during commission of the crime, triggering a mandatory minimum penalty.
• B) The fact that the offender committed the crime with "deliberate cruelty," authorizing a sentence above the presumptive guideline range.
• C) The exceptionally large amount of money that victims lost because of the defendant's fraud, making available the highest of three designated statutory penalties for fraud under state law.
• D) The offender's prior criminal convictions that increase the available sentence for the current crime of conviction.

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