Criminal
Jan. 4, 2001
Prison Inmates Seek 'Apprendi' Redress
WASHINGTON - The dissenters to Supreme Court decisions regularly engage in hyperbole to warn of dire results from the majority's opinion. But six months after the court's 5-4 decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 120 S.Ct. 2348 (2000), the dissenters' forecast - that the "watershed" ruling would "unleash a flood of petitions by convicted defendants seeking to invalidate their sentences" - is right on target.
But six months after the court's 5-4 decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 1...
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