Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Problem:scheme, an Oklahoma capital sentencing jury's finding of any particular aggravating circumstance does not of itself "convict" a defendant and require the death penalty, and its failure to find any particular aggravating circumstance does not "acquit" a defendant and preclude the death penalty. 20 . The dissent acknowledges that Hogan can prevail only if this Court declines to follow Poland. 21 . The dissent misconstrues our holdings in Crawford v. State, 1992 OK CR 62, 840 P.2d 627, 640-41, Cheney v. State, 1995 OK CR 72, 909 P.2d 74, and Perry v. State, 1995 OK CR 20, 893 P.2d 521, 533-37, and misunderstands the Satta-zahn distinction between a jury's non-finding of an aggravating circumstance and an acquittal on the merits of murder plus aggravating circumstances th 556 (2002) (<HOLDING>). Hogan's aggravators were tried to a jury, not
Holding statements: (A) holding that if the existence of any fact increases the maximum punishment that may be imposed on a defendant that fact constitutes an element that must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt (B) holding that if the imposition of the death penalty depends on the existence of aggravating factors a jury must find those factors beyond a reasonable doubt (C) holding that under the sixth amendment any fact which increases the penalty for a crime eg by triggering a mandatory minimum sentence must be found by the jury beyond a reasonable doubt (D) holding that sixth amendment requires that a jury not a judge find the existence of any aggravating circumstance and that they be found beyond a reasonable doubt (E) holding that a sentencing judge sitting without a jury may not find an aggravating circumstance necessary for imposition of the death penalty
Solution:
(D)