Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial applies to supervised release revocation proceedings

In United States v. Haymond , 139 S. Ct. 2369 (2019) , a 4-1-4 decision, this Court left undecided the question of how the Sixth Amendment’s jury -trial right applied in federal supervisedrelease proceedings. Justice Gorsuch, writing for the plurality, recognized that traditional parole and probations system s (where a defendant owes time remaining on a sentence) was fundamentally different from supervised release (where a defendant owes no time) —and that “structural difference bears constitutional consequences.” In dissent, Justice Alito highlighted the unres olved question left in Haymond ’s wake: whether “the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial applies to any supervised release revocation proceeding .” That is the issue presented here. – iii –