The Rights of the Accused under the Sixth Amendmen: Trials, Presentation of Evidence, and Confrontation, Third Edition

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Both criminal defense lawyers and criminal prosecutors must thoroughly understand the rights of the accused under the Sixth Amendment in order to provide competent service and ensure that they are following all court procedures according to the rule of law. The Rights of the Accused under the Sixth Amendment provides an in-depth look at seven key aspects of this area of the law:

• The right to a speedy trial;
• The right to a jury trial;
• The right to a public trial;
• The place of prosecution;
• The right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusations;
• The Confrontation Clause; and
• And the Compulsory Process Clause.

This third edition includes up-to-date coverage of the relevant case law and discussion of the Sixth Amendment in the context of emerging challengesparticularly the right to a speedy trial under the extraordinary circumstances of a global pandemic.

Author Bio

Paul Marcus is the Haynes Professor of Law at the College of William and Mary. Formerly the law dean at the University of Arizona, his teaching and research interests are in the criminal justice, comparative law, and intellectual property areas. He has spoken to numerous judicial, bar, and university groups in the U.S., and has taught and lectured in several other nations. He is a graduate of the UCLA School of Law. Prior to going into teaching, Professor Marcus clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and practiced law in Los Angeles. He is the author of several books in the criminal justice area and has written numerous articles in the field as well. David K. Duncan is a United States Magistrate Judge sitting in Phoenix. He is chair of the Ninth Circuit's Magistrate Judges Executive Board and has been a member of that Circuit's Magistrate Judges Education Committee. Prior to joining the District Court in 2001, he was an Assistant United States Attorney. Before government service, he was a partner in the Phoenix firms of Osborn Maledon, P.A., and Meyer, Hendricks, Victor, Osborn & Maledon, P.C. He attended Brown University and the University of Arizona. He obtained his J.D., with high distinction, from the University of Arizona, where he was an editor of the Arizona Law Review and a member of The Order of the Coif. He served as a law clerk to the Hon. William D. Browning, U.S. District Judge in Tucson. Tommy Miller is a United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia. He is also an adjunct professor of law at the College of William and Mary, teaching both criminal and civil courses. Judge Miller served on the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules and participated in the restyling of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. He has spoken to many judicial and bar groups and was a member of the Federal Judicial Center's Magistrate Judge Education Committee. Prior to becoming a judge, he was the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Virginia. He graduated from the College of William and Mary Law School. Jolle Anne Moreno (co-author) is a Professor of Law and the Associate Dean for Faculty Research & Development at Florida International University. A former federal prosecutor at the United States Department of Justice, her work focuses on the constitutional constraints on the police (including the future of the Confrontation Clause) and the misuse of pseudosci entific evidence by courts (including childhood vaccine claims and specious defenses to child abuse cases). She has presented her work to judges, academics, and practitioners at numerous legal, medical, and scientific conferences around the world. Professor Moreno is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Swarthmore College, and perhaps most importantly to a native New Yorker, Stuyvesant High School.