Florida enhances the sentences for certain offenses —making the statutory maximum sentence also the statutory minimum sentence —if the defendant is a "Prison Releasee Reoffender," that is, if the defendant commits the offense while serving a sentence in a state prison (or similar facility) or within three years of release from a state prison (or similar facility).

Florida juries don't decide whether defendants are Prison Releasee Reoffenders: judges do. Florida courts say this falls under the prior-record exception to Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000). The question presented is:

Whether a sentencing court violates the Sixth Amendment's Jury Clause when it rather than the jury finds that the defendant committed the offense within three years of his release from a state prison and on that basis imposes the enhanced sentence?

Whether a sentencing court violates the Sixth Amendment's Jury Clause when it rather than the jury finds that the defendant committed the offense within three years of his release from a state prison and on that basis imposes the enhanced sentence?