What right is guaranteed in the Sixth Amendment?

The right to a grand jury

The right to counsel

The right to be secure in their homes and property

The right to no excessive/cruel punishments

What case established the right to counsel?

Gideon v. Wainwright

Brewer v. Williams

Powell v. Alabama

Betts v. Brady

What right is not guaranteed in the Assistance of Counsel Clause?

The right to remain silent

The effective assistance of counsel

The right to represent oneself pro se

The right to appointed counsel

The defendant has a right to counsel without a conflict of interest

True

False

The Sixth Amendment and The Bill of Rights do not have anything to do with each other

True

False

What happens if you do not have a lawyer?

You must take out a loan to hire a lawyer

You have to wait in jail until the money can be possessed

You automatically are guilty

One is provided for you

What violates the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a fair trial

Denied bail because the judge fears that they will try to run

A suspect is secretly put on trial by the authorities at an undisclosed location

An attorney gives the advice to his client to not testify at their own trial

A trial is moved to a different county to avoid a biased jury

Which is not a right of the Sixth Amendment?

What does it mean that a person has a right to a speedy trial?

That trials can't last for more than a day

That all trials will happen within two weeks of the arrest

That the government can't delay a trial without a good reason

That trials will happen when they happen

What rights help to insure that government officials follow the law and don't hold trials in secret?

Right to a speedy trial

Double Jeopardy

Exclusionary Rule

Right to a public trial

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