Amendment6Trial

6th Amendment of the Constitution By: Garrick Frankeny, Nathan Garcia, Layne Brougher

Lets just say that you get into court and you are as poor as a hobo, and are charged with robery. You should know your rights and demand a free court elected attorney and if you think that the judge is going to be too rough on you then once again you should demand a jury to decide your fate! This is an amendment where you pretty much learn all of your rights in court and they are pretty powerfull too! Take this case for example...

Our case: Clarence Earl Gideon vs. Waneright

Pictures: Jury, Pool Table, Clarence Gideon  In this case, Clarence Earl Gideon was charged with stealing money from a Florida pool hall vending machine. He was put on trial but I am sad to say that he could not afford an attorney. So he asked the judge for an attorney to represent himself. But the judge said that the case was too small to give him a free attorney. So in his last attempt for a fair trial he pleaded for a jury and after a while they finally agreed to a jury.

There are 2 verry big mistakes that happened in this case and this case could have gone alot faster if Gideon had recognized them. This amendment describes all of your rights in court. This amendment describes that: In our opinion this amedment was formed for the sole purpose of guaranteeing peoples rights in court. Some big cases before this amedment was created are: So we think that this was created just to helphold people to a fair speedy trial that was correct and to all peoples moral standards.
 * 1) The second the judge heard Gideon ask for a jury the judge should have agreed to it imediatley because, and we quote from the bill of rights" ...shall enjoy the right to a speedy public trial,by an impartial jury of the state and district where in the crime shall have been committed".
 * 2) The final thing is that if Gideon truly knew his rights he would have caught the judge when he denied him an attorney elected by the court for free because the case was too insignificant. This was a complete violation of his rights and he should have known that.
 * __Analisis:__**
 * 1) You have the rights to an attorney even if you can't afford one.
 * 2) You have the rights to a jury to deside the verdict and not a judge.
 * 3) You have the luxury of a quick trial.
 * 4) You **__ARE__** innocent untill proven guilty with indisputable evidence or an eye witness.
 * The Boston Massacre trial of the British soldiers.
 * Trials against traitors that were publicly hated was not a matter of what they did but was more of how much the judge didn't like them!

This amendment is still very important today it holds our judicial system in place and in our point of view this can really help you win a case even if you are unabel to pay for an attorney.

Resouces: Clip Art, Google at home,http://www.rightsmatter.org/cases/index.html#gideon & our text book