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U.S. v. Smith, No. 98-1501 (7th Cir.) (223 F.3d 554) (August 17, 2000) (Judge Diane P. Wood)

Using the “best guess approach,” the Seventh Circuit held in this case that the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000) does not apply to the harsher life imprisonment provisions of the CCE statute, 21 U.S.C. § 848.

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