What is ur position?

Question

In 1979, Gannett Co. v. DePasquale, the Supreme Court ruled that criminal defendants could waive their rights to public and thereby bar the public and press from the courtroom. Although the majority of the Supreme Court judges supported this decision, a minority of the judges, led by Harry Blackmun, wrote a strongly worded disagreement. They carefully examined the history of the right to a public trial and found no basic for the majority holding that there exists a right to compel a private trial.

Case 2:
In 1932, Powell v. Alabama case popularly called the case of the “Scottsboro Boys.” The Supreme Court reviewed the conviction, in an Alabama court, of nice black youths who had been charged with raping two white women. The flagrant unfairness of the Alanbama court proceedings had attracted national attention. Nince separate trials had been held in one day, with counsel appointed for each defendant on the morning of trial. In overturning the youth’s convictions, the Supreme Court found that their representation by assigned counsel, fiven no opportunity to prepare, had been a sham. The Court held that the right to counsel impied both the right to have counsel appointed and the right to have effective assistance of counsel. The Scottsboro defendants had been sentenced to death. Following the Powell decision, a question remained as to whether the right to have counsel assigned in state proceedings applied to less serious crimes.

Answer 1

Case #1- I believe that every trial has to be public in some fashion so that the guilt or innosence can be seen by everyone. I would agree that TV and newscrews could be requested and should be upheld.

Case #2- I believe that adequate time to prepare should be given, but it needs to have some sort of regulation to prevent a short preparation time as well as a drawn out one as well.

Answer 2

Whatever is the law at present.

Answer 3

innocent til proven guilty.