Amendment 6

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

So everyone has the right to a fair trial with a jury of your peers. Everyone also has the right to an attorney. Also the accused gets to know what they are being accused of. The trial is to be held in the state that one is accused in. There has been issues with this part because some criminals commit half of a crime, kidnapping, in one state. Then flee to the neighboring state and commit the other half, murder. In this case I believe that what ever the court wants to trial the accused for is the state the trial is in. If the murder occurred in Florida and the kidnapping in Georgia, then the trial for the murder would be in Florida.

http://insession.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/17/jury-deliberations-continue-in-arson-murder-trial/

This website is a blog off of a CNN story. It speaks of a women would has waited 10 years in prison to be trialed. The sixth amendment isn't too speedy on this one.



An example of the 6th amendment in place. Man is accused of killing his family a year, and his trial keeps getting put off.