Ex parte Greco

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• asserting that the legislature cannot fully divest a court of its sentencing discretion
• \[T]he judicial function of fixing the punishment.. . quite likely was vested in [the judiciary] by the constitution according to the practice of common law. A statute that attempted [to take this power away] would quite likely have to be held unconstitutional.\

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