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Ciaramella | 12.20.2023 12:50 PM Criminal Justice HUNTER BIDEN'S MULTIPLYING CHARGES EXEMPLIFY A PROFOUND THREAT TO TRIAL BY JURY Prosecutors have enormous power to coerce guilty pleas, which are the basis for nearly all convictions. Jacob Sullum | 12.13.2023 12:01 AM Second Amendment HUNTER BIDEN'S MULTIPLYING GUN CHARGES THREATEN THE RIGHT TO ARMS AND THE RIGHT TO TRIAL The collapse of his plea deal set up a clash with his father, who doggedly defends the firearm regulations his son violated. Jacob Sullum | 9.18.2023 3:29 PM Criminal Justice JOINT TRIAL OF SIDNEY POWELL AND KENNETH CHESEBRO ILLUSTRATES THE FUZZINESS OF GEORGIA'S RICO LAW The two alleged racketeers complain that irrelevant evidence concerning distinct, uncoordinated conduct aimed at keeping Donald Trump in office will impair their defense. Jacob Sullum | 9.8.2023 4:15 PM Criminal Justice HE SPENT 10 YEARS BEHIND BARS WITHOUT BEING CONVICTED. HE'LL HAVE TO WAIT LONGER TO HAVE THE CASE RESOLVED. Maurice Jimmerson finally got a trial after a decade of pretrial detention. It ended in a hung jury. Emma Camp | 7.26.2023 4:30 PM Civil Liberties HE SPENT A DECADE IN JAIL WITHOUT BEING CONVICTED. NOW HIS LAWYER SAYS HIS CASE SHOULD BE DISMISSED. Maurice Jimmerson has spent 10 years in jail awaiting trial for a 2013 murder charge. Emma Camp | 6.2.2023 4:44 PM Criminal Justice SENTENCING COMMISSION PROPOSES RESTRICTING JUDGES' USE OF ACQUITTED CONDUCT It may sound bizarre, but yes, you can be punished at sentencing for an offense you were acquitted of by a jury. C.J. Ciaramella | 1.17.2023 2:49 PM Criminal Justice OREGON SUPREME COURT ORDERS NEW TRIALS FOR HUNDREDS CONVICTED BY SPLIT JURIES Oregon was one of only two states that allowed for non-unanimous guilty verdicts until the Supreme Court outlawed them in 2020. C.J. Ciaramella | 1.3.2023 2:46 PM Sex Crimes AN IOWA JURY AWARDS $12 MILLION IN DAMAGES TO A MAN WHO WAS WRONGLY IMPRISONED FOR SEXUAL ABUSE A former guidance counselor served six years of a 25-year sentence thanks to a public defender's incompetence. Jacob Sullum | 9.30.2022 4:05 PM Criminal Justice THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO CONFRONT WITNESSES AGAINST YOU, WHEN THEY'VE BEEN EXPOSED TO COVID Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 9.13.2022 2:06 PM Criminal Justice THE FOUNDERS LOVED JURY TRIALS. ALMOST NO ONE GETS ONE ANYMORE. John Adams called jury trials part of the "heart and lungs of liberty." Today, defendants are often punished for exercising that very right. Billy Binion | 7.4.2022 9:00 AM Criminal Justice TED CRUZ HATES DUE PROCESS By smearing public defenders, the Texas senator shows what he thinks of constitutional rights. C.J. Ciaramella | 4.5.2022 4:06 PM Criminal Justice PAMELA MOSES 'REQUESTED A JURY TRIAL.' SO SHE GOT 6 YEARS IN PRISON. Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich said Moses would be a free woman—if she hadn't insisted on exercising her constitutional right to trial. Billy Binion | 2.17.2022 5:20 PM Criminal Justice DON'T PUNISH THE QANON SHAMAN—OR ANYONE—FOR DEMANDING A JURY TRIAL Coercive plea deals trample on defendants' Sixth Amendment rights. Billy Binion | 11.18.2021 4:16 PM Criminal Justice THE VARSITY BLUES TRIAL IS A REMINDER OF OUR CORRUPT CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Plead guilty and get "punishments ranging from probation to nine months in prison." Insist on a trial and face decades in prison. Ira Stoll | 10.11.2021 5:10 PM Criminal Justice CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR PROPOSES MILLIONS IN PUBLIC DEFENDER FUNDING TO SETTLE SIXTH AMENDMENT LAWSUIT The ACLU argues the lack of state funding and oversight creates an unconstitutional lack of access to legal counsel in poorer California counties. C.J. Ciaramella | 1.10.2020 4:36 PM Volokh Conspiracy IMPEACHMENT AND THE SIXTH AMENDMENT No, President Trump cannot invoke his Sixth Amendment rights in connection with House impeachment proceedings David Post |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.12.2019 12:37 PM Impeachment RAND PAUL PROPOSES EXPANDING WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTIONS WHILE PUBLICLY EXPOSING WHISTLEBLOWERS Yes, Trump (and everybody else) has a right to face their accusers when they’re charged with crimes. But that hasn’t actually happened. Scott Shackford | 11.7.2019 1:50 PM Sixth Amendment FEDERAL PROSECUTORS ARE PUNISHING ACTOR LORI LOUGHLIN FOR EXERCISING HER RIGHT TO DEFEND HERSELF Plea deals aren’t about mercy these days. They’re about intimidating defendants into giving up the right to a trial. Scott Shackford | 10.24.2019 3:30 PM Supreme Court SCOTUS DEBATES WHETHER THE RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY SHOULD MEAN THE SAME THING IN STATE AND FEDERAL COURT Understanding what’s at stake in Ramos v. Louisiana. Damon Root | 10.9.2019 11:40 AM Neil Gorsuch GORSUCH AND SOTOMAYOR JOIN FORCES IN DEFENSE OF SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS It's not the first time the two justices have teamed up on a criminal justice case. Joe Setyon | 1.7.2019 3:05 PM New York NEW YORK'S TOP COURT RULES IMMIGRANTS ARE ENTITLED TO JURY TRIALS FOR CRIMES THAT MAY LEAD TO DEPORTATION Many face getting tossed out of the country for minor crimes. This ruling could result in big changes. Scott Shackford | 11.28.2018 2:00 PM Silk Road ROSS ULBRICHT FILES APPEAL TO THE SUPREME COURT ON HIS LIFE SENTENCE WITHOUT PAROLE Silk Road founder's appeal stresses the dangerous Fourth and Sixth Amendment implications of his prosecution and sentencing. Brian Doherty | 12.27.2017 3:42 PM Brickbats BRICKBATS: THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE Charles Oliver | 11.22.2017 4:00 AM Criminal Justice ACLU SUES NEVADA OVER INADEQUATE PUBLIC DEFENDER SYSTEM Rural Nevada counties use overworked contract attorneys as public defenders, leaving poor defendants at a huge disadvantage, the ACLU says. C.J. Ciaramella | 11.2.2017 3:00 PM Sixth Amendment ACLU SUES LOUISIANA PARISH FOR ALLEGED BAIL EXTORTION SCHEME A civil rights lawsuit says a state judge and a private company are effectively holding defendants for ransom. C.J. Ciaramella | 8.8.2017 1:00 PM Reasontv RAND PAUL ON BLOCKING INDEFINITE DETENTION AND SAUDI ARMS SALES The Kentucky senator laments that "there's very little of this attorney general, this Department of Justice, doing anything favorable towards criminal justice or towards civil liberties" Todd Krainin and Matt Welch | 6.9.2017 11:14 AM Civil Liberties THE DISAPPEARING SIXTH AMENDMENT In many parts of the U.S., those who can't afford a lawyer must wait months to meet with public defenders. C.J. Ciaramella | 5.7.2017 6:00 AM * About * Browse Topics * Events * Staff * Jobs * Donate * Advertise * Subscribe * Contact * Media * Shop * Amazon Reason Facebook@reason on XReason InstagramReason TikTokReason YoutubeApple PodcastsReason on FlipboardReason RSS © 2024 Reason Foundation | Accessibility | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Notifications