In their White-Collar Crime column, Elkan Abramowitz and Jonathan Sack begin with a discussion of Supreme Court cases extending the Sixth Amendment's jury-trial right to sentencing and then consider ...

Not every constitutional law question has two sides. We don’t lose sleep, for example, over how many senators represent each state (two), or whether representation in the House must be proportional ...

Steven Calabresi is an important figure in the US legal profession, the holder of a named chair at a top-flight institution (Northwestern Pritzker School of Law) and the Co-founder and Board Chairman ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit concludes binding SCOTUS precedent says "no," but perhaps this view should he reconsidered. The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides that ...

Federal Rule of Evidence 606(b) and its jurisprudence generally prohibit jurors from impeaching the validity of their verdicts. This general preclusion of juror testimony, derived from ...

A. Hal, the Sixth Amendment provides seven distinct and fundamental rights for criminal defendants. These rights are so important I call them “the magnificent seven.” Let’s take them in order. 1. The ...