Jones v. Illinois

Issues: (1) Whether it violates the Sixth and 14th Amendments to use a criminal defendant's prior juvenile adjudication, where that defendant had no right to a jury trial, to impose a longer sentence than otherwise would be permissible in a subsequent adult criminal proceeding; (2) if it is constitutionally permissible to use a prior non-jury juvenile adjudication to enhance a sentence, whether the fact of that adjudication must be proved to a jury, or may be found by a judge alone; and (3) alternatively, whether the court's decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, which held that the fact of a prior conviction need not be submitted to a jury and proved beyond a reasonable doubt, should be overruled.