Simply because someone is in jail awaiting his or her trial does not mean that they waive some fundamental rights to a fair trial. Yesterday, we addressed the issue of whether a defendant can be tried in jail clothing and discovered that to do so would violate a person's ...
What If There Has Been Substantial Media Coverage Before My Trial?
In cases such as OJ Simpson or Casey Anthony, there has been substantial media coverage of these "cases of the century." In all of these "cases of the ...
The right to a fair trial is one of the most important requirements that must be upheld for a criminal defendant. This right goes hand-in-hand with ...
Inherent in our analysis of the right to a speedy trial, is the prinicple that a defendant has a constitutional right to to be heard, in other words, ...