Equal Fairness In Criminal Cases

Equal fairness applies to everyone. A potential suspect can have fairness too. In the criminal trial, the defendant can have an opportunity to get his or her innocence proven; but is limited on his or her rights. The defendant’s rights are described in the Sixth Amendment. There are special features of criminal trials that are present to provide the uttermost fairness such as the speedy trial, against self-incrimination, the mutual presumption, and strict proof. All of those can help to determine which course of action fits the defendant situation and provides justices to the victim or to the defendant. The rights of a defendant are under the Sixth Amendment. The speedy trial is a timeframe on how long can the accused be held accountable after he or she has been accused, since that might be an innocent person or the actual offender that must be retain. Against self-incrimination allow the accused to not participant in the witness stand. Another defendant’s right is under the
For example, in Carter’s report, a man name Bobby Lavon Buckner has been accused of the kidnapping and murdering a twelve-year-old girl, Ashleigh Moore, in 2003. Before the death of Moore, Buckner is already registered as a sex offender and has violated his probation by being around children including Moore. He has been the boyfriend of Moore’s mother. In 2007, He has been formally accused on killing Moore and supposes to go on trial in April 2011. However, that trial would be the eleventh time setting up Buckner trial time. The constant back and forth on whether to put him on the death penalty nearly took five month to prosecute him, but that has been dismissed because of the prosecution period that went for too long. The case has been dismissed, although, Buckner has committed another crime that sentence him to twenty years in prison. In this case, the Sixth Amendment has been guaranteed and Buckner, at that time, was set