Loren Robinson v. Jeffrey Woods

GRIFFIN, Circuit Judge.

*712 The Supreme Court has interpreted the Sixth Amendment's jury guarantee to mean that "[a]ny fact that, by law, increases the penalty for a crime ... must be submitted to the jury and found beyond a reasonable doubt." Alleyne v. United States , 570 U.S. 99 , 103, 133 S.Ct. 2151 , 186 L.Ed.2d 314 (2013). In this appeal, petitioner Loren Robinson seeks a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 , arguing that the Michigan trial court violated his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial by using judge-found facts to score sentencing variables that increased his mandatory…