Brief filed: 08/08/2008
Documents
Oregon v. Ice
United States Supreme Court; Case No. 07-901
Prior Decision
Case below 170 P3d 1049 (Or. 2007)
Argument(s)
Oregon’s consecutive sentence statute, which allows a judge to impose consecutive sentences upon finding certain facts, violates the Sixth Amendment and the Court’s decisions in Apprendi v. New Jersey (2000) and Blakely v. Washington (2004).
Author(s)
Jeffrey T. Green, James C. Owens and Madeleine V. Findley, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, DC.