'This is an emergency': Maine bill would allow public courts to hire private attorneys
This comes just days after a ruling finding the state of Maine breached the Sixth Amendment. A new bill would allow courts to ...
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Judge Rakoff Challenges Sentencing Guidelines: Upholding the Sixth Amendment
US District Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Southern District of New York issued a decision in United States v. Tavberidze, holding ...
13 Things In the U.S. Constitution That Should Never Be Messed With
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Fred Wiggington's defense argues inmate informant's role violated the Sixth Amendment
The man accused of murdering his wife and hiding her body for more than a year faced an Amherst County judge on Monday, March ...
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Maine judge hands down order in Sixth Amendment rights violation case
Starting April 3, defendants who have been held for 14 days or longer without a lawyer must be released from custody. Those who have gone 60 days or longer without an attorney must have the charges ...
Judge allows some informant information for Wiggington murder trial
Wiggington’s defense team believes the jail move was orchestrated to place Wiggington near the informant, so he would provide ...
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Sixth Amendment/Right to Counsel
What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...
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Sixth Amendment Center
What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...
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Chelsea Manning Shows Up to Manhattan Courthouse to Support Luigi Mangione
Manning tells PEOPLE she is "exercising my Sixth Amendment right" Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty; Chelsea Manning/Instagram Famed whistleblower Chelsea Manning was one of more than 100 people ...