The court of appeals reversed an order of the district court and remanded. The court held that a sentencing court violated Apprendi by making findings as to disputed facts that underlay a defendant’s prior conviction that were not necessary to that conviction and that the defendant had no reason to challenge at the time of that conviction.
In 1993, Rick Wilson pleaded no contest in California state court to gross vehicular manslaughter while driving under the influence and to proximately causing bodily injury while driving under the influence. Wilson was sentenced to a year in a residential treatment facility.
