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:our state Supreme Court to determine "[w]hether the sentence of death is excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases, considering both the crime and the defendant"); cf. Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc., 517 U.S. 370, 377, 381-82, 116 S. Ct. 1384, 134 L. Ed. 2d 577 (1996) (in determining whether it is proper for a jury to " 'shoulder [the] responsibility [of construction of a written instrument] ... to preserve the substance of the [Seventh Amendment] common-law right of trial by jury,' " noting that judges not juries, ordinarily construe written documents (emphasis omitted) (quoting Tull v. United States, 481 U.S. 412, 426, 107 S. Ct. 1831, 95 L. Ed. 2d 365 (1987)); Jackson v. Denno, 378 U.S. 368, 385-86, 84 S. Ct. 1774, 12 L. Ed. 2d 908 (1964) (<HOLDING>). Some have argued that Blakely prohibits the
Holding statements: (A) holding the sixth amendment right to a jury trial applies to the states through the fourteenth amendment (B) holding the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment extends the right to jury trial to defendants in serious criminal cases in state courts (C) holding that states procedure providing for jury evaluation of voluntariness of a defendants confession violates fourteenth amendment due process (D) holding that continued incarceration after the lawful basis for custody expires violates due process under the fourteenth amendment (E) holding that an attempt by a prosecuting attorney to serve two masters violates the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment
Solution:
(C)