www.annenbergclassroom.org – The Sixth Amendment’s confrontation clause gives the accused the right “to be confronted with the witnesses against him” at a criminal trial. This film uses the Supreme Court case Crawford v. Washington to help explain the history and importance of the confrontation clause and why the framers knew it would be crucial to an effective system of justice.”
Criminal Procedure video dealing with Crawford v. Washington and its reading of the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause. The lecture covers the basic holding and reasoning, and briefly previews its application in two high-volume contexts.
The Right to Face Your Accuser: Child Abuse and the Sixth Amendment
The Right to Face Your Accuser: Child Abuse and the Sixth Amendment
Should the Confrontation Clause limit the admissibility of children's statements to mandatory child abuse reporters? Richard Friedman (University of Michigan Law School) and Thomas Lyon (USC Gould School of Law) will discuss alternative perspectives on the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment. The Confrontation Clause typically guarantees citizens the right to face their accusers. The unique circumstances of child abuse raised in Ohio v. Clark perhaps require deeper consideration.
This video is used with the express permission of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
The video was created by a committee of judges and attorneys and will be presented to jurors in every case with the intent of highlighting and combating the problems presented by unconscious bias. (March 2017).
Patrick Bayer on Impact of Race on Juries in Two Florida Counties
Juries formed from all-white jury pools in Florida convicted black defendants 16 percent more often than white defendants, a gap that was nearly eliminated when at least one member of the jury pool was black, according to a Duke University-led study. (April 2012).
The big problem with how we pick juries
A legal loophole makes juries less diverse.
Juries: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
(warning: explicit language)
John Oliver takes a look at why people of color are routinely excluded from becoming jurors, who their absence impacts, and what we can do to create a fairer system.
Illegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection
Equal Justice Initiative video on the origins of racial discrimination in juries.
Twenty Million Angry Men: A Conversation about the Importance of Including People with Felony Convictions in Our Jury System
Offered by the Harvard Radcliffe Institute in collaboration with the Institute to End Mass Incarceration at Harvard Law School, this program explores questions of jury service, civic participation in the criminal legal system, and the importance of such participation by people with prior convictions.
More Perfect Podcast
"At the trial of James Batson in 1982, the prosecution eliminated all the black jurors from the jury pool. Batson objected, setting off a complicated discussion about jury selection that would make its way all the way up to the Supreme Court. On this episode of More Perfect, the Supreme Court ruling that was supposed to prevent race-based jury selection, but may have only made the problem worse." For more information, click here.
Preserving the 6th Amendment: The Right to a Speedy Trial Amid Court Closures & Re-Openings
Moderated by UC Berkeley Law Professor Andrea Roth, this webinar features a discussion on the speedy trial right generally and a variety of stakeholder perspectives on how to meet today’s challenges.
This webinar, hosted on January 22, 2021 by the National Association for Presiding Judges, reviews research-based approaches to modernize criminal case processing, reduce backlogs, and sustain successful operational improvements within the court’s culture. Questions addressed include:
Is your court ready and able to apply proven criminal case management solutions to restart case processing?
What should individual judges do to become more proficient in managing their criminal dockets?
How can court leaders help reduce systemic barriers to improve criminal caseflow?
Introduction to the Sixth Amendment's Right to Counsel
Presented by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)
OPEN MIKE: Right to Fair Trial?
Right to Fair Trial? National Expert Exposes Serious Concerns in Courts All Across America
David Carroll is a nationally recognized expert in court system reform and the delivery of good counsel services. He works with the Sixth Amendment Center to ensure that people accused of crimes have access to adequate legal representation. In this episode of Open Mike, David tells Mike about the Michigan Justice system’s recent improvements after a report that his organization made on the state. They also discuss the inherent problem of bail and how court-appointed lawyers are too overworked to provide good counsel. Tune in to this insightful episode to learn about the problems with our criminal justice system and what needs to be done to fix it.
Sixth Amendment
A selected lecture from "Introduction to Key Constitutional Concepts and Supreme Court Cases" with University of Pennsylvania law professor Kermit Roosevelt III.
In Practice
Check out this episode of "In Practice" with host Rob Wolf are members of the Center for Court Innovation's Criminal Defense Initiatives team, Lisa Vavonese, deputy director, and Liz Ling, coordinator in which they discuss the use of video conferencing at initial appearances.
Constitutional Conversation: 6th Amendment - Speedy Trial and Public Trial, Impartial Jury
Listen to scholars at James Madison's Montpelier discuss: - How did the Founding Fathers define a speedy trial and why did they address how long it takes to have a trial? - What is a public trial and how open should a trial be?
On June 15, 2020, NACDL and FAMM hosted a virtual panel discussion about “The Vanishing Trial” documentary. The panelists included Sakira Cook, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; Brittany K. Barnett, Buried Alive Project; Clark Neily, The Cato Institute; and Norman L. Reimer, NACDL. View the discussion below.
On June 29, 2020, New Yorkers United for Justice hosted a virtual panel discussion of the upcoming FAMM and NACDL film "The Vanishing Trial." Panelists included Robert Rose, a formerly incarcerated advocate; Susan Walsh, New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Jared Trujillo, The Legal Aid Society; and Khalil Cumberbatch, New Yorkers United for Justice. Featuring Norman Reimer, NACDL; and Molly Gill, FAMM. View the entire discussion below.
Trial Penalty Report Launch Event -- July 10, 2018
At a special event at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, on July 10, 2018, NACDL released The Trial Penalty: The Sixth Amendment Right to Trial on the Verge of Extinction and How to Save It. The keynote speaker at the event was Hon. John Gleeson (Ret.). In addition to NACDL leadership including NACDL Immediate Past President Rick Jones, NACDL Past President Barry Pollack, and NACDL Executive Director Norman L. Reimer, representatives from numerous leading groups in the criminal justice reform movement from across the political spectrum delivered remarks agreeing that the trial penalty in the American criminal justice system is a serious problem that needs to be addressed. Those groups included the Cato Institute, Human Rights Watch, Right on Crime, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM), the ACLU, the Charles Koch Institute, the Innocence Project, and Fair Trials International. Pro Bono Counsel Don Salzman from the firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP also spoke, as did New York criminal defense attorney Frederick P. Hafetz. Due to conflicts, the ACLU and FAMM sent their remarks. The entire 90-minute event is available below.
Prosecutors: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver explains how prosecutors use, or in some cases misuse, their power within our criminal justice system and why it’s important to know whether or not your district attorney is a dog.
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