Rights of the accused

dictionary, due process is a set procedure for judicial or other government events designed to protect the individual’s legal rights. Due process basically was designed to assure all legal proceedings are conducted fair and all rights are being followed before taking a person’s freedom or property. Process is due whenever a person’s rights are involved and requires that the accused be notified and given a fair opportunity to be heard before action is taken. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment…

passed to protect the American citizen and his or her rights. Each Amendments in the Bill of Rights and the Articles in the United States Constitution all have a specific role to play in the American society. However, the most important articles are in the Bill of Rights. The Amendment V of the Bill of Rights is the most important one out of the whole ten original Amendments. Amendment V promotes and protects the American idea of unalienable rights of “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.”…

put the Amendment VI into the Bill of Rights. Amendment VI has many protections to the one person accused of a crime, such as Public Trial Guarantee, Right to be informed of criminal charges, and Right to be confronted by adverse witnesses. However, the right to a speedy trial is considered the most important in the constitution, because criminal defendants could be held accountable under a unproven accusations. The 6th Amendment is a part of the Bill of Rights, which is the first ten of the…

Bill of Rights Video Script Video - You will research the bill of rights and compile a video that identifies the ten amendments of the Bill of Rights, defines the specific rights and provides real-life examples of these rights in action. Your assessment is the video and to what extent you showed your understanding of the amendments and their application in our country today. Title: The Bill of Rights- Lila Rubin, Period 4 1st Amendment: The first amendment is the freedom of religion, speech,…

In this paper I will compare, and contrast the Declaration Of Independence, and The Declaration of the rights of man and citizen. These two documents are mostly the same just different use of words. There are some differents like both of these documents leave out something that the other document does not have. In this paper I will show what they both talk about. In the Declaration of Independence was written in 1776 by Tomas Jefferson Thomas was influenced by the European…

viewing it as a threat to democracy and American values. However, during the Red Scare, innocent individuals experienced negative consequences for being accused of being communists or communist sympathizers. So while the Red Scare increased patriotism, it also caused unjust persecution and mass hysteria, which overstepped fundamental Constitutional rights. The baseless accusations and unjust persecution that occurred of supposed communists and liberals during the Red Scare completely undermine…

In the world today, there are many people who are put in jail, prison, or even being killed because of being wrongly accused and not having a say in the matter. However in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692, there were more than two-hundred accused and twenty that were executed because of this same reason. Also, in 1933 to 1945, during the holocaust, there were over sixty million accused, thrown into concentration camps to rot away, and were not able to have a say in anything that happened, or even…

The Salem Witch Trials started in February 1692, over 200 hundred people were accused of witchcraft. There are a lot of questions about what caused the acusion of witchcraft? Was it ergot poisoning? Were people actually signing a contract with the devil or, were they just crazy? The infamous witch trails started all because a group of young girls claimed to be possessed by the devil and started pointing fingers at several local women claiming them of witchcraft. Two young girls (Elizabeth…

Hundreds of people falsely accused of believing in something they may not even believe in. This happened in the book The Crucible and during the Red Scare. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is an allegory for the Red Scare in the McCarthy era because they both revolve around false accusations and differing opinions or beliefs. These false accusations lead to people being wrongly questioned and left them living in fear simply due to their opinion and beliefs. In the Mccarthy era, and in the book The…

must state the Miranda rights (The right to counsel and remain silent). Furthermore, once put in front of the court the Grand Jury must weigh evidence to determine the amount of bail making sure it is not excessive. Additionally, the trial must happen within a reasonable amount of time. The accused has the right to have a bench trial or a grand jury trial. The trial must be Speedy and public with an impartial jury. There must be no self-incrimination. Keep in mind the accused is innocent…