Sixth Amendment

Example Sentences

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“The failure to notify counsel about the jury’s note and the judicial assistant’s ex parte communications with the jury during deliberations amounted to a violation of the defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel,” the panel found.

From Los Angeles Times

By placing Parias in immigration detention, Olguin wrote, the government “has jeopardized this court’s ability to try Mr. Parias in compliance with the demands of the Sixth Amendment” — which provides for a fair and speedy trial.

From Los Angeles Times

They have no Sixth Amendment right to an attorney—that applies only to criminal defendants.

From Slate

Louisiana that the Sixth Amendment demands a jury drawn from a representative cross section of the community.

From Slate

The bedrock promise of the Sixth Amendment is a public trial by an impartial jury of our peers in “the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.”

From Slate