Burnett v. United States

Summary

The Supreme Court denied the petition for a writ of certiorari; Justice Gorsuch dissented, arguing that imposing additional prison time for supervised release violations that cause a defendant's total incarceration to exceed the statutory maximum for the underlying conviction implicates the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial. He contended that any fact increasing the penalty beyond the maximum must be proved to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt and urged lower courts to consider this constitutional issue.