The Sixth Amendment In U.S. Trials

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The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees criminal defendants:

The right to a public trial without unnecessary delay.
The right to an attorney, the right to an impartial jury.
The right to know one’s accusers.
The nature of the charges or evidence against them.
Preparation
Analyze the following U.S. Supreme Court cases:

Ballew v. Georgia.
Burch v. Louisiana.
Instructions
Write a 4–6 page paper in which you:

Explain the fundamental protections available to a defendant under the Sixth Amendment related to the concepts of a speedy trial, an impartial jury, the role of the jury, and the right to face one’s accusers.

Analyze the reasoning behind the U.S. Supreme Court’s holding in Ballew v. Georgia and Burch v. Louisiana that a conviction by a unanimous five-person jury in a trial for a non-petty offense deprives an accused of the right to trial by jury.

Support your writing with at least three credible, relevant, and appropriate academic sources.
Write in an articulate and well-organized manner that is grammatically correct and free of spelling, typographical, formatting, and/or punctuation errors.

Then prepare a one-page case brief of Ballew v. Georgia using the case brief template.

Finally, prepare a one-page case brief of Burch v. Louisiana using the case template