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Federal courts historically have had the power to try criminal contempt cases without a jury. There is a virtually uninterrupted 150-year line of cases which holds that contempt is not a Crime or criminal prosecution within the meaning of article III and the sixth amendment to the Constitution. Superficially, the decision in United States v. Barnett is in accord with these precedents. However, in an important dictum, footnote number 12, the majority cautioned that punishment by summary trial without a jury would be constitutionally limited to that penalty provided for petty offenses. Although the Court itself styles this comment a dictum, its potential effect is to overrule this long history of decisions
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The Founding Fathers thought the jury-trial right was so fundamental to our system of justice that t...
In United States v. United States District Court, the Ninth Circuit held that the circumstances of a...
Opposing counsel\u27s objection to material in petitioner\u27s opening statement to the jury was sus...
Should constitutional provisions for jury trial apply to contempts committed outside the physical pr...
In an exercise of the discretionary rule-making authority over the lower federal courts, the Supreme...
The right to trial by jury in criminal cases is basic to the design of American criminal justice and...
“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an...
Until the rendition of the Supreme Court\u27s lengthy opinion in Patton v. United States the consequ...
In the past three quarters of a century there have been many signsthat the power to punish summarily...
The Federal Bill of Rights and state constitutions rely heavily on procedural protections, especiall...
In Blanton v. City of North Las Vegas, the Supreme Court set forth the definitive standard for disti...
The power of courts to punish summarily for criminal contempt is, as Mr. Justice Black recently obse...
Appellate harmless error review, an early twentieth-century innovation prompted by concerns of effic...
The defendant was tried before the police court of the District of Columbia for selling, as a second...
A complaint was made in the Municipal Court of Hoboken against the defendant charging that he had wi...
The Founding Fathers thought the jury-trial right was so fundamental to our system of justice that t...
In United States v. United States District Court, the Ninth Circuit held that the circumstances of a...
Opposing counsel\u27s objection to material in petitioner\u27s opening statement to the jury was sus...
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