Court Opinion

ID: 9433776
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:41:17.283432+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:43.919220
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Justice Scalia,
concurring.
In dissenting in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U. S. 224 (1998), I suggested the possibility, and in dissenting in Monge v. California, 524 U. S. 721, 737 (1998), I set forth as my considered view, that it is unconstitutional to remove from the jury the assessment of facts that alter the congres-sionally prescribed range of penalties to which a criminal defendant is exposed. Because I think it necessary to resolve all ambiguities in criminal statutes in such fashion as to avoid violation of this constitutional principle, I join the opinion of the Court.