Based on current interpretation of the Sixth Amendment jury trial right, which of the following facts does not have to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, just like an element of the crime?
A) The fact that the offender "brandished" a weapon during commission of the crime, triggering a mandatory minimum penalty.
B) The fact that the offender committed the crime with "deliberate cruelty," authorizing a sentence above the presumptive guideline range.
C) The exceptionally large amount of money that victims lost because of the defendant's fraud, making available the highest of three designated statutory penalties for fraud under state law.
D) The offender's prior criminal convictions that increase the available sentence for the current crime of conviction.
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