He Spent a Decade in Jail Without Being Convicted. Now His Lawyer Says His Case Should Be Dismissed.
Maurice Jimmerson has spent 10 years in jail awaiting trial for a 2013 murder charge.
Maurice Jimmerson has spent 10 years in jail awaiting trial for a 2013 murder charge.
It may sound bizarre, but yes, you can be punished at sentencing for an offense you were acquitted of by a jury.
Oregon was one of only two states that allowed for non-unanimous guilty verdicts until the Supreme Court outlawed them in 2020.
A former guidance counselor served six years of a 25-year sentence thanks to a public defender's incompetence.
John Adams called jury trials part of the "heart and lungs of liberty." Today, defendants are often punished for exercising that very right.
By smearing public defenders, the Texas senator shows what he thinks of constitutional rights.
Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich said Moses would be a free woman—if she hadn't insisted on exercising her constitutional right to trial.
Coercive plea deals trample on defendants' Sixth Amendment rights.
Plead guilty and get "punishments ranging from probation to nine months in prison." Insist on a trial and face decades in prison.
The ACLU argues the lack of state funding and oversight creates an unconstitutional lack of access to legal counsel in poorer California counties.
No, President Trump cannot invoke his Sixth Amendment rights in connection with House impeachment proceedings
Yes, Trump (and everybody else) has a right to face their accusers when they’re charged with crimes. But that hasn’t actually happened.
Plea deals aren’t about mercy these days. They’re about intimidating defendants into giving up the right to a trial.
Understanding what’s at stake in Ramos v. Louisiana.
It's not the first time the two justices have teamed up on a criminal justice case.
Many face getting tossed out of the country for minor crimes. This ruling could result in big changes.
Silk Road founder's appeal stresses the dangerous Fourth and Sixth Amendment implications of his prosecution and sentencing.
Rural Nevada counties use overworked contract attorneys as public defenders, leaving poor defendants at a huge disadvantage, the ACLU says.
A civil rights lawsuit says a state judge and a private company are effectively holding defendants for ransom.
The Kentucky senator laments that "there's very little of this attorney general, this Department of Justice, doing anything favorable towards criminal justice or towards civil liberties"
In many parts of the U.S., those who can't afford a lawyer must wait months to meet with public defenders.