United States v. Jay Nagy

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that Almendarez-Torres v. United States , 523 U.S. 224 , 118 S.Ct. 1219 , 140 L.Ed.2d 350 (1998
• “Almendarez-Torres is still good law and will remain so until the Supreme Court explicitly overrules it.”
• “The striking and troublesome harshness [of a fifteen-year sentence for felon in possession of a firearm] ... is but a particularly clear example of our sometimes difficult duty to apply the policy choices of Congress, rather than our own.”
• “The striking and troublesome harshness [of a fifteen-year sentence for felon in possession of a firearm] . . . is but a particularly clear example of our sometimes difficult duty to apply the policy choices of Congress, rather than our own.”
• “[MJandatory minimum sentences are not cruel and unusual.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).