CRM/LAW C7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bench Trial, Thirteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
22 Feb 2018
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-public defenders and their workload (100+ cases at a time, including your own) California was the first state with the public defender"s office was established in california in. Despite the sixth amendment right to a jury trial, in 1920 the illinois state supreme court decided the felony cases could be heard by judge only. This is known as a bench trial, a trial to a judge, no jury. Stipulated bench trials occurs when the state won"t reduce a charge the judge thinks should be reduced. The two sides then go through the motions of a trial as rapidly as possible substituting actual testimony with the capsuled stipulations of what they believe witnesses would say. The judge informs the defendant of results ahead of time. -these are called stip benches at 26th street. 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the u. s. constitution. Note: a portion of article iv, section 2, of the constitution was superseded by the 13th amendment.
