As a result, the advisory system doesn't have a maximum sentence at all (short of the ultimate statutory maximum). (news.lawreader.com)
Apprendi did, after all, discuss exposure not only in terms of an increased statutory maximum penalty, but expressly held that «[I] t is unconstitutional for a legislature to remove from the jury the assessment of facts that increase the prescribed RANGE of penalties to which a criminal defendant is exposed.» (sentencing.typepad.com)
For a host of reasons, I would expect the calculated guideline range for Nassar on his federal child porn charges to be life imprisonment, and I would predict that he will get a richly deserved statutory maximum sentence of 60 years imprisonment at his upcoming federal sentencing. (sentencing.typepad.com)