Opinion ID: 1174723
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Heading: Defendant's federal constitutional challenge

Text: Defendant finally contends that Oregon's restitution statutes violate his right to a criminal jury trial under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. For the same reasons we noted above, this argument also fails. The Supreme Court of the United States held in Proffitt v. Florida, 428 U.S. 242, 252, 96 S.Ct. 2960, 49 L.Ed.2d 913 (1976), that under the United States Constitution there is no right to a jury in a sentencing hearing even in a capital case. Because a restitution hearing is part of a defendant's sentencing, defendant has no constitutional right to a criminal jury trial under the United States Constitution. United States v. Satterfield, 743 F.2d 827 (11th Cir.1984). [11] The Court of Appeals is affirmed.