Equal Fairness In Criminal Cases

Equal fairness applies to everyone. A potential suspect can have fairness too. In the criminal trial, the defendant can have an opportunity to get his or her innocence proven; but is limited on his or her rights. The defendant’s rights are described in the Sixth Amendment. There are special features of criminal trials that are present to provide the uttermost fairness such as the speedy trial, against self-incrimination, the mutual presumption, and strict proof. All of those can help to determine which course of action fits the defendant situation and provides justices to the victim or to the defendant. The rights of a defendant are under the Sixth Amendment. The speedy trial is a timeframe on how long can the accused be held accountable after he or she has been accused, since that might be an innocent person or the actual offender that must be retain. Against self-incrimination allow the accused to not participant in the witness stand. Another defendant’s right is under the
Sixth Amendment that gives she or he the right to be treated fairly and strict regulation of evidences that be provided. The special features of criminal trial can dismiss a trial.
For example, in Carter’s report, a man name Bobby Lavon Buckner has been accused of the kidnapping and murdering a twelve-year-old girl, Ashleigh Moore, in 2003. Before the death of Moore, Buckner is already registered as a sex offender and has violated his probation by being around children including Moore. He has been the boyfriend of Moore’s mother. In 2007, He has been formally accused on killing Moore and supposes to go on trial in April 2011. However, that trial would be the eleventh time setting up Buckner trial time. The constant back and forth on whether to put him on the death penalty nearly took five month to prosecute him, but that has been dismissed because of the prosecution period that went for too long. The case has been dismissed, although, Buckner has committed another crime that sentence him to twenty years in prison. In this case, the Sixth Amendment has been guaranteed and Buckner, at that time, was set
free. Fairness also creates inequality. The speedy trial protects the accused from states gaining control of one time and freedom, but in situation like Buckner, it is morally wrong to just dismiss a high potential suspect. Even if he is put to a death penalty or not, a case involving a murder trial needs a longer time to making sure it is the correct suspect and the right punishment can be applied. The speedy trial seems unfair to the victim side. Therefore, my misconception in the Sixth Amendment is that the justice has exception. It has such a wide spread coverage that is harder to make an exemption - exemption that applies to criminals and at risk of them causing another crime. There should be an opportunity to bring justified. My proposal is that in speedy trial there should be other alternatives instead of releasing a potential suspect into the community, especially in the case that the accused has a high possibility that she or he did it. This proposal can decease perhaps in the overall of the criminal justice system because the actual criminals are getting what they have done. However, this proposal can be applied to the accused that is innocent. It will be much difficult to considered who gets to be release or who have to go to another route if the speedy trial time is over. Also, for the innocent person that is accused