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  It does not.  Judges have a lot of leeway in deciding punishment.
context: WASHINGTON (AP) — A jury convicted Dayonta McClinton of robbing a CVS pharmacy but acquitted him of murder. A judge gave McClinton an extra 13 years in prison for the killing anyway.
  In courtrooms across America, defendants get additional prison time for crimes that juries found they didn’t commit.
  The Supreme Court is being asked, again, to put an end to the practice. It’s possible that the newest member of the court and a former federal public defender, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, could hold a pivotal vote. >
  
  For those wondering
  
  a 1997 Supreme Court ruling that “a jury’s verdict of acquittal does not prevent the sentencing court from considering conduct underlying the acquitted charge, so long as that conduct has been proved by a preponderance of the evidence.”
  
  Crimes require "beyond a reasonable doubt," but apparently punishment does not.