Should Teenagers Get A Fair Trial

Should teens get punished for committing murder even though they are not adults yet? Teens should get sentence with life in prison but sometimes that is not the case because some teens are ignorant and too young to get that charge. Therefore they only get sentenced for some years. Though teenagers do get true justice for committing murder. To begin with, everyone gets a fair trial. A fair trial means that the people in charge of the case make sure that the process of the trial is fair (“The Right to a Fair Trial”). To insure fair trials they have applied The Bill of Rights to majority of the states. The Bill of Rights also gives you rights while having a fair trial. For example, the Bill of Rights gives you the “right to counsel, the right
to speedy and public trails” (Fedrick). The Bill of Rights plays an important part when having a fair trial to insure there won’t be no fallacies. Amendments also help you have a fair trial without the government intervening and abusing their power. The sixth amendment “gives you the right to a fair trial”, the fourteenth amendment gives you “equal protection”, and the fifth amendment also “protects you” (Impartial Jury). The amendments protect you from the government taking full control and also gives you Then there is the selection of a petit jury and this is a component of the sixth amendment. Trial jury is also known as a petit jury. The petit jury decides whether the “defendant committed the crime” or whether the “defendant injured the plaintiff in a civil case” (The right to a Fair Trial). Leading to fair trials because there are plenty of laws in the court system that will give you the right to a fair trial. Therefore, courts will decide what the teenagers sentence would be. Teenage murders get classified into degrees according to there actions. The state categorizes them into “first, second and possibly third degree” but usually many teens fall into the first degree. The First Degree consist of