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Amendment VI In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherei

Amendment VI In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. TL;DR? "...and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation;"

heliodor 5y ago
You're overlooking the fact that it starts with the qualifier "in all criminal prosecutions."
rdl 5y ago
The more relevant thing is Amendment IV: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." Third party doctrine, by which my private communications are exposed because they use a cloud-hosted provider vs. being physically located in my home, is bullshit. Almost all laws on surveillance were made back when it was time and labor intensive to do searches -- even the pen registers for metadata collection -- vs. today where the cloud services run law enforcement portals and the process is very easy (and many judges and senior LE people don't push back on warrants and subpoenas.)