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· 4/16/1931

West Huntsville Cotton Mills Co. v. Commissioner

Citations

  • 22 B.T.A. 1216
  • 1931 BTA LEXIS 1991

How courts have described this case

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  • unnecessary to hold Frye hearing each time new loci are tested where PCR techniques already ruled admissible
  • “We hold that the factual basis for an exceptional sentence upward need not be charged, submitted to the jury, and proved beyond a reasonable doubt.”
  • quoted and cited in Blakely v. Washington, 124 S.Ct. at 2537, for the proposition that had the judge imposed the enhanced sentence solely on the basis of Blakely's guilty plea, he would have been reversed
  • “DNA typing methods are designed to extract portions of DNA molecules and determine whether the genetic profile resulting from a forensic sample matches that of a suspect.”
  • \DNA typing methods are designed to extract portions of DNA molecules and determine whether the genetic profile resulting from a forensic sample matches that of a suspect.\
  • Almendarez-Torres has not been overruled

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Judges: Trammell

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