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RING, TIMOTHY S. v. ARIZONA (27433)

    Order dated: 01/11/02
    Docket number: 01-488
    Action:
        The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. Petitioner's brief is to be filed with the Clerk and served upon opposing counsel on or before 3 p.m., Monday, February 25, 2002. Respondent's brief is to be filed with the Clerk and served upon opposing counsel on or before 3 p.m., Wednesday, March 27, 2002. A reply brief, if any, is to be filed with the Clerk and served upon opposing counsel on or before 3 p.m., Monday, April 15, 2002. Rule 29.2 is suspended in this case.

RING, TIMOTHY S. v. ARIZONA (27433)

    Order dated: 03/18/02
    Docket number: 01-488
    Action:
        petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

A description of the questions presented by the case has been prepared:

Whether Walton should be overruled in light of this Court's subsequent holding, in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000), that for a legislature to remove from the jury the assessment of facts that increase the prescribed range of penalties to which a criminal defendant is exposed (id.at 490 (internal quotation marks omitted) violates the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial.

An opinion has been handed down: