Sixth Amendment

Question 0

Name five other rights

Answer 0

right to confront witnesses 
right to a public trial 
right to a bench trial 
right to a fail trial 
right to a speedy trial

Question 1

Name the four main rights of the sixth amendment

Answer 1

1. Be informed of charges
2. Be present when witnesses speak in court
3. To call defense witnesses
4. To have a lawyer

Question 2

What is a bench trial?

Answer 2

If you don’t have a jury trial is called a bench trial.

Question 3

What is Gideon v.Wainwright

4 things

Answer 3

1. The right to counsel during trial
2. Gideon finds paupers appeal from prison
3. contended that the sixth amendment guarantees assistance of counsel to all defendants
4. all defendants accused of felonies had a right to counsel extended to all misdemeanors nine years later

Question 4

1100 cases retroactively, what was the effect in 1963?

Answer 4

Retrials for people that had a case similar to Gideons.

Question 5

What was the effect of Gideon’s trial today?

Answer 5

a public defender which are overworked, plea bargain