POL SCI 145E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Habeas Corpus, Seventh Amendment To The United States Constitution, James Comey
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Habeas corpus is in civil procedure not criminal law. It does not end in criminal action therefore not studied in criminal classes. Several numbers in the bill of rights that have to do with criminal law. 4th 5th 6th and the 8th overtly directly have to do with questions of crime, arrested, and how the courts will proceed. 7th amendment right to jury in common law. They were afraid that people who were up to criminal offenses would be too hard to prove. In civil cases you don"t have a right to civil trail. In order to prosecute these cases they would call them civil crimes so they could circumvent the jury. Not about criminal law but prevented government from keeping people from a jury. Vast number of white collar crimes don"t go to jail because its too hard. Comey was head of fbi and he called together and said how many of you have lost a case.
