In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Guidelines violated the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial because
A) juries had not been selected fairly in the first place.
B) judges were asked to consider facts not originally presented to a jury.
C) defendants had not initially been given a fair jury trial.
D) juries had been given too much power.
B
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