- 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.
- Prepare a one-page case brief of Ballew v. Georgia.
- Use the Case Brief Template [DOCX].
- Prepare a one-page case brief of Burch v. Louisiana.
- Use the Case Brief Template [DOCX].
- 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.
- Citation standard example below.
- Sources: Author, publication date, title, page number, and how to find it. number the citation with the same number the source is number with
- I attached a copy of the template below.