Podcast 44: Right to Bail (Part 1)
The Right to Bail is a way to ensure that folks have the right to be free while awaiting trial, or alternatively, are incarcerated to protect the public until their trial.
The Right to Bail is a way to ensure that folks have the right to be free while awaiting trial, or alternatively, are incarcerated to protect the public until their trial.
Double Jeopardy places certain restrictions on the government, thus minimizing repeat trials against a criminal defendant, until the Prosecutor eventually wins the case.
Double Jeopardy is intended to give a criminal defendant closure after guilt or innocence has been determined. But it might not end there.
Double Jeopardy prevents a second criminal trial for the same offense…or does it?
Double Jeopardy protects against governmental harassment of the innocent.
We’ll discuss a law firm screwing up their own lawsuit request for a jury trial; we’ll talk more about a jury of your peers, and getting thrown out of political office.
Do you know when you have the right to a jury trial in administrative law matters? Criminal trials? Jury of your peers?
Do you know whether a jury trial is allowed for child neglect cases? Real property ownership? Ejectment?
Representing yourself at trial is a protected Michigan Constitutional right. But there are parameters by which a judge may restrict that right.