Task: Wrong Candidate Generation
Input (English): together, the Sixth Amendment and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution “entitle a criminal defendant to a ‘jury determination that [he] is guilty of every element of the crime with which he is charged, beyond a reasonable doubt.’ ” Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 477, 120 S. Ct. 2348, 147 L. Ed. 2d 435 (2000) (alteration in original) (quoting United States v. Gaudin, 515 federal constitutional rule: This court has repeatedly . . . held that Apprendi and its progeny do not require the State to submit a defendant’s prior convictions to a jury and prove them beyond a reasonable doubt. State v. Thiefault, 160 Wn.2d 409, 418, 158 P.3d 580 (2007) (citation omitted); see also State v. Roswell, 165 Wn.2d 186, 193 n.5, 196 P.3d 705 (2008) (<HOLDING>). Until such time as our Supreme Court 
 Holding statements: (A) holding that apprendi carved out an exception for prior convictions that specifically preserved the holding of almendareztorres (B) holding that almendareztorres rejected the argument that the fact of a prior conviction must be found by a jury (C) recognizing exception carved out by almendareztorres (D) recognizing the prior conviction exception of almendareztorres (E) recognizing exception
Output (English): recognizing exception