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 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 century" there was a lot of media coverage that, ...
The Texas Code of Criminal Procedure specifically states that "[i]t is the duty of the trial court, the attorney representing the accused, the attorney representing the state and all peace officers to ...
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 the presumption of innocence. The presumption of ...
As enumerated in the Sixth Amendment, a defendant has a right to a speedy and public trial. The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that certain processes are "due" to the ...
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, have a right to have a fair trial. The phrase fair ...
