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Sunday, January 11, 2015

Are Federal Bench Trials in Criminal Cases Constitutional?

Bench trials (trial to a judge with no jury) constitute about half of all criminal trials in the federal courts and in the neighborhood of 15% of the felony trials. Yet they are in flat contradiction to the express language of the Constitution.