The promise of the Sixth Amendment, foundational in our democracy, is that no matter who you are — how poor or unpopular, no matter your politics or your personal history — you deserve a ...

A Kennebec County Superior Court judge has issued an order after the state of Maine was found to have violated the Sixth Amendment rights of defendants who could not afford a lawyer by failing to ...

The Tenth Circuit overruled its 1995 decision in Shillinger v. Haworth that a defendant is prejudiced and a Sixth Amendment violation occurs whenever the government deliberately and for no ...