In United States v. Booker (2005), the Supreme Court decided that the mandatory federal sentencing guidelines ________.

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The Supreme Court in United States v. Booker (2005) ruled that the mandatory federal sentencing guidelines are unconstitutional because they violated the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial, by allowing judges to make factual determinations that could increase a defendant's sentence beyond the maximum penalty set by the jury's findings.

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