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Sixth Amendment : the right to a fair trial / by Smith, Rich,1954-(CARDINAL)382521;
A joining of minds -- How to make a fair jury -- Juries must look like america -- The power of juries to right a wrong -- America's most famous jury rebellion -- Moving right along -- A tale of two systems -- Nothing hidden -- Safeguarding liberty.1130LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: United States.; Fair trial; Due process of law; Speedy trial; Jury; Right to counsel;
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Plead the fifth : a look at the Fifth amendment / by Tolli, Jenna,author.(CARDINAL)792967;
Protecting individual rights -- Need for a Bill of Rights -- Fifth amendment -- Grand jury -- Double jeopardy -- Self-incrimination -- Why plead the Fifth? -- Due process -- Takings clause -- Adding amendments -- Miranda warning -- Different opinions -- Keeping up with technology -- An important role.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: United States.; Due process of law; Self-incrimination; Eminent domain;
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The rights of the accused / by Ramen, Fred.(CARDINAL)703391;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-123) and index.1. Origins of the United States Constitution -- 2. The Constitutional Convention -- 3. Birth of the Bill of Rights -- 4. The Supreme Court and the Bill of Rights before the Civil War -- 5. The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights -- 6. Fifth Amendment : the freedom from self-incrimination -- 7. Fifth Amendment : protection from double jeopardy -- 8. Fifth and Sixth Amendments : due process and jury trials : guarantees of fairness -- 9. Sixth Amendment : the right to counsel -- 10. Eighth Amendment : cruel and unusual punishment -- 11. Conclusion.Explains how the Constitution and Bill of Rights came to exist, how they laid out the rights of those accused of committing a crime, and how the Supreme Court has interpreted these rights since then.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: United States.; Civil rights; Civil rights; Criminal procedure; Criminal procedure; Due process of law; Due process of law; Fair trial; Fair trial;
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Fifth Amendment : the right to fairness / by Smith, Rich,1954-(CARDINAL)382521;
Wht is due process? -- Strike up the grand -- Miranda rights -- Forced confessions are not allowed -- When is a Miranda warning required? -- "I take the fifth" -- Once is more than enough -- No taking without paying -- Fairness will always be important.1070LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: United States.; Double jeopardy; Due process of law; Grand jury; Right to counsel;
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What is the right to a trial by jury? / by Tolli, Jenna,author.(CARDINAL)792967;
Right to a trial jury -- Constitution and Bill of Rights -- History of juries -- Trial by jury -- Public trials -- Notice of accusation -- Confrontation clause -- Right to an attorney -- Criminal cases and civil cases -- Seventh Amendment -- Jury responsibilities -- Deliberations -- Making the decision -- The verdict -- Being chosen to serve on a jury -- Important responsibility -- Why are these protections important? -- Jury bias -- Other options -- Changes over time -- Voice of the people."The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects people who have been accused of crimes. It ensures American citizens can receive a "speedy and public trial . . . by an impartial jury." It also ensures that trials will be held in the state in whichthe alleged crime occurred. Perhaps most significant, the Sixth Amendment says people have a right to a lawyer, even if they can't afford it. The Seventh Amendment extends the right to a trial by jury to federal civil cases. Inside this volume, readers will explore the language and impact of the Sixth and Seventh Amendments and read the history behind these two components of the Bill of Rights. The text is supported by primary sources, fact boxes, and graphics, and provides further resources for readers to learn even more"--
Subjects: Young adult literature.; United States.; United States.; United States.; Jury; Fair trial; Right to counsel; Due process of law;
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The rights of the accused in criminal cases : the Sixth Amendment / by Murray, Hallie,author.(CARDINAL)415349;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: United States.; Fair trial; Due process of law; Criminal procedure; Right to counsel;
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Demand the impossible : one lawyer's pursuit of equal justice for all / by Tsai, Robert L.,1971-author.(CARDINAL)801441;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-212) and index.Stephen Bright emerged on the scene as a cause lawyer in the early decades of mass incarceration, when inflammatory politics and harsh changes to criminal justice policy were crashing down on the most vulnerable members of society. He dedicated his career to unleashing social change by representing clients that society had long ago discarded, and advocated for all to receive a fair trial. In Demand the Impossible, Robert L. Tsai traces Bright's remarkable career to explore the legal ideas that were central to his relentless pursuit of equal justice. For nearly forty years, Bright led the Southern Center for Human Rights, a nonprofit that provided legal aid to incarcerated people and worked to improve conditions within the justice system. He argued four capital cases before the US Supreme Court--and won each one, despite facing an increasingly hostile bench. With each victory, he brought to light how the law itself had become corrupted by the country's thirst for severe punishment, exposing prosecutorial misconduct, continuing racial inequality, inadequate safeguards for people with intellectual disabilities, and the shameful quality of legal representation for the poor. Organized around these four major Supreme Court cases, each narrated in vivid and dramatic detail, Tsai's essential account explores the racism built into the criminal justice system and the incredible advancements one lawyer and his committed allies made for equal rights. An electrifying work of legal history, Demand the Impossible reveals how change can be won in even the most challenging times and how seemingly small victories can go on to have outsized effects.--
Subjects: Informational works.; Bright, Stephen B., 1948-; Civil rights lawyers; Criminal defense lawyers; Due process of law; Criminal justice, Administration of; Civil rights;
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Sexual justice : supporting victims, ensuring due process, and resisting the conservative backlash / by Brodsky, Alexandra,author.(CARDINAL)846191;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The story of after -- A civil right -- What institutions can do -- Why not the police? -- When institutions fail -- "The other side" -- What is due -- An incomplete blueprint -- Why process matters for all -- The limits of process -- Straw feminists -- An "exceptional" harm -- The roots of exceptionalism -- Exceptions to exceptionalism -- Ugly histories -- Of men's rights and famous men -- The people who want to bring you mandatory referral -- Indelible in the Hippocampus -- Conclusion."A pathbreaking work for the #MeToo era, laying out a better response to sexual harms that includes due process for the accused"--
Subjects: Sex discrimination against women; Women; Sexual harassment of women; Sexual abuse victims; Due process of law; Women.; Womyn.;
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The campus rape frenzy : the attack on due process at America's universities / by Johnson, Robert David,1967-author.(CARDINAL)384594; Taylor, Stuart,Jr.,1948-author.(CARDINAL)530589;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In recent years, politicians led by President Obama and prominent senators and governors have teamed with extremists on campus to portray our nation's campuses as awash in a violent crime wave-and to suggest (preposterously) that university leaders, professors, and students are indifferent to female sexual assault victims in their midst. Neither of these claims has any bearing in reality. But they have achieved widespread acceptance, thanks in part to misleading alarums from the Obama Administration and biased media coverage led by the New York Times. The panic about campus rape has helped stimulate-and has been fanned by-ideologically skewed campus sexual assault policies and lawless commands issued by federal bureaucrats to force the nation's all-too-compliant colleges and universities essentially to presume the guilt of accused students. The result has been a widespread disregard of such bedrock American principles as the presumption of innocence and the need for fair play. This book will use hard facts to set the record straight. It will, among other things, explore about two dozen of the many cases since 2010 in which innocent or probably innocent students have been branded as sex criminals and expelled or otherwise punished by their colleges. And it will show why all students-and, eventually, society as a whole-are harmed when our nation's universities abandon pursuit of truth and seek instead to accommodate the passions of the mob"--
Subjects: Rape in universities and colleges; Rape in universities and colleges; Presumption of innocence; Due process of law;
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Litigating across the color line : civil cases between black and white southerners from the end of slavery to civil rights / by Milewski, Melissa Lambert,author.(CARDINAL)783455;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-334) and index.Part 1. Civil cases between black and white southerners, 1861-1899 -- A revolution in the courts -- How to litigate a case against a white southerner -- Challenging whites' bequests -- The law of contracts and property -- Part 2. Civil cases between black and white southerners, 1900-1950 -- The New South and the law -- Confronting fraud through the courts -- The law of bodily injury -- Fighting for rights in the courts -- Appendix A. Notes on methodology, sources, and findings -- Appendix B. Tables.As a result of the violence, segregation, and disfranchisement that occurred throughout the South in the decades after Reconstruction, it has generally been assumed that African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South litigated few civil cases and faced widespread inequality in the suits they did pursue. In this groundbreaking work, Melissa Milewski shows that black men and women were far more able to negotiate the southern legal system during the era of Jim Crow than previously realized. She explores how, when the financial futures of their families were on the line, black litigants throughout the South took on white southerners in civil suits and, at times, succeeded in finding justice in the Southern courts. Between 1865 and 1950, in almost a thousand civil cases across eight southern states, former slaves took their former masters to court, black sharecroppers litigated disputes against white landowners, and African Americans with little formal education brought disputes against wealthy white members of their communities. As black southerners negotiated a legal system with almost all white gate-keepers, they found that certain kinds of cases were much easier to gain whites' support for than others. But in the suits they were able to litigate, they displayed pragmatism and a savvy understanding of how to get whites on their side. Their negotiation of this system proved surprisingly successful: in the civil cases African Americans litigated in the highest courts of eight states, they won more than half of their suits against whites throughout this period. Litigating Across the Color Line shows that in a tremendously constrained environment where they were often shut out of other government institutions, seen as racially inferior, and often segregated, African Americans found a way to fight for their rights in one of the only ways they could. Through these suits, they adapted and at times made a biased system work for them under enormous constraints. At the same time, Milewski considers the limitations of working within a white-dominated system at a time of great racial discrimination -- and the choices black litigants had to make to get their cases heard. - Publisher.
Subjects: Trial and arbitral proceedings.; African Americans; African Americans; African Americans; Race discrimination; Courts; Due process of law;
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