United States v. Cecil Eugene Cheek

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• holding that the armed career crimi nal designation based on prior convictions does not violate Booker
• concluding that a district court’s reliance on a defendant’s prior convictions to support an enhanced sentence under the ACCA does not violate the Sixth Amendment
• holding that defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to trial by a jury was not violated by district court’s reliance on his prior convictions for purposes of sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act
• holding that defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to trial by a jury was not violated by district court’s reliance on his prior convictions for purposes of sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act
• holding that defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to trial by a jury was not violated by district court’s reliance on his prior convictions for purposes of sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act
• holding that, under the Sixth Amendment, the fact of a prior conviction need not be submitted to the jury or admitted by the defendant for it to serve as the basis for a sentence enhancement

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