[PDF] Sixth Amendment eBook

Author : Therese M. Shea
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 1448823277

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This book is an introduction to the Sixth Amendment which empowers the people as it guarantees rights to an accused person in criminal cases.

Author : Rich Smith
Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 2007-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1617842575

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Examines the Sixth Amendment, explaining your right to a fair trial.

Author : Paul Marcus
Publisher :
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Criminal procedure
ISBN : 9781634254045

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The right to a speedy trial -- The right to a public trial -- The right to a jury trial -- Place of prosecution -- The right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusations -- The confrontation clause -- The compulsory process clause

Author : Alfredo Garcia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,45 MB
Release : 1992-05-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 0313066914

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Alfredo Garcia, who has been both a prosecuting and a defense attorney in criminal processes, reviews the United States Supreme Court's interpretations of the Sixth Amendment--the right to a fair trial--as they have evolved since the 1960s. He determines that the Court, with a few notable exceptions, has demonstrated doctrinal inconsistency and has failed to adhere to the core values embedded in the amendment. Garcia argues that the functional and symbolic roles of the Sixth Amendment have been eroded, and that this is particularly evident in the three clauses that provide defendants the means to respond to charges and to be assured of fair process. The clauses considered specifically involve the right to counsel, the right to confrontation, and the right to compulsory process. The Supreme Court's emphasis in more recent years is perceived to be on efficiency rather than on protecting the ideal of a fair trial. The six chapters cover the rights to counsel, to confrontation, to compulsory process, to a speedy trial, and to a jury trial, and the sometime conflict between a free press (First Amendment) and the Sixth Amendment assurance of a fair trial free of antecedent prejudicial publicity. This is a timely, much-needed, and substantive examination of the highest court's interpretations of a defendant's constitutional right to a fair, speedy trial.

Author : Justice John Paul Stevens
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,23 MB
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0316373745

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For the first time ever, a retired Supreme Court Justice offers a manifesto on how the Constitution needs to change. By the time of his retirement in June 2010, John Paul Stevens had become the second longest serving Justice in the history of the Supreme Court. Now he draws upon his more than three decades on the Court, during which he was involved with many of the defining decisions of the modern era, to offer a book like none other. Six Amendments is an absolutely unprecedented call to arms, detailing six specific ways in which the Constitution should be amended in order to protect our democracy and the safety and wellbeing of American citizens. Written with the same precision and elegance that made Stevens's own Court opinions legendary for their clarity as well as logic, Six Amendments is a remarkable work, both because of its unprecedented nature and, in an age of partisan ferocity, its inarguable common sense.

Author : Hallie Murray
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766085597

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The fact that individuals accused of a crime are innocent until proven guilty and safeguarded by a robust set of rights and protections is one of the things that sets the United States apart from many other nations. According to the Sixth Amendment, individuals accused of crimes have a number of important rights, including the right to a speedy trial, to a jury of peers, to be informed of the charges against them, to an attorney and witnesses in their defense, and to face their accuser. This book reviews the history of the Sixth Amendment, including the events that inspired it and the major Supreme Court cases related to it.

Author : Rich Smith
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 45,32 MB
Release : 2007-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1604531940

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Examines the Sixth Amendment, explaining your right to a fair trial.

Author : Robert McWhirter
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 37,1 MB
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781945682063

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The Sixth Amendment guarantees the accused notice of the accusation, a court and witnesses for the defense. Something we take for granted today. But in writing the Sixth Amendment the drafters of the Bill of Rights were drawing on their knowledge of history and politics from ancient times, through the development of English common law, and its application in the British colonies. In this book you will find what that history was, who the actors in it were, and how our brilliant Founders used that knowledge to underpin their work. This lively account is written for the interested citizen, as well as the civics student. Along the way there are surprising, and interesting, discursions into how the events and personalities surrounding the Sixth Amendment have appeared in literature, film, sports and popular culture. The book is part of a collection chronicling the origins, history, and interpretation, of the first ten Amendments to the Constitution - the Bill of Rights.

Author : Eden Force
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780382241840

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Studies the historical origins of provisions of the Sixth Amendment, which guarantees certain rights of trial to persons accused of crimes.