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Meaning And Purpose Of The 7th Amendment

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Amendment 7 One day you’re sitting on the couch eating a bagel. Then, BOOM!!! The police are knocking on your door. BANG!!! You find out that you were accused for murder and are arrested. Then one day you are released because a jury trial has proven you not guilty. You might think something like this would never happen to you, but if it did luckily we have the 7th Amendment in the Constitution which guarantees a trial by jury. This protects you from being wrongly accused and/or have one person decide your fate. The meaning and purpose of the 7th Amendment, trial by jury, makes an enduring impact in our lives

The Meaning and Purpose of the 7th Amendment Being a citizen of the U.S.A our founding fathers wanted to make sure our rights were …show more content…

They were concerned that if trials were only decided by judges, the judges would side with the government, giving the government too much power. This happened to the colonists when judges, who were appointed by the king, would always side with the king. They felt a jury of local people would be more likely to provide a fair trial.¨ This means that they didn’t want the trials to be decided by just the judges because it would give too much power to the government. The 7th Amendment only refers to civil cases not criminal cases. In fact, according to http://www.ducksters.com/ “A trial by jury is when a number of people hear the case and decide together if the defendant is guilty. The amendment doesn't say exactly how many people need to be on a jury. The Supreme Court, however, has said that there needs to be at least six people on a jury. Most juries today in the United States have twelve members.” This means that the jury is just a bunch of random people that have heard about the case that hear what he has to say and decide if he’s guilty. And if that’s not enough according to http://www.ducksters.com/ “The amendment states that the lawsuit must be for more than twenty dollars. This was a lot more money in 1791 then it is today. Back then, it was more than a month's wages for the average worker. Today (2014), a dispute must be …show more content…

According to http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/09/17251878-man-wrongly-imprisoned-in-murder-case-wins-132-million-in-civil-rights-lawsuit “A federal jury found Friday that two Cleveland detectives fabricated or withheld evidence in the 2000 trial of David Ayers” This means that he was framed y two people during the trial in 2000. Moveover, http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/09/17251878-man-wrongly-imprisoned-in-murder-case-wins-132-million-in-civil-rights-lawsuit “The Ohio Innocence Project took up his case in 2008, Ayers got a state appeals court to order the trial judge to allow DNA testing of a single pubic hair found on Brown’s body – the results of which showed the hair did not come from Ayers.” This means that the Ohio Innocence Project confirmed that David Ayers was innocent by using DNA. “http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/09/17251878-man-wrongly-imprisoned-in-murder-case-wins-132-million-in-civil-rights-lawsuit” “One detective settled with Ayers out of court. But in the civil rights trial, the Plain Dealer reported, Ayers’ lawyers said two other detectives, Denise Kovach and Michael Cipo, had tried to frame Ayers because he was gay” This means for some reason Denise Kovach and Michael Cipo framed David Ayers just because he was gay. You might think wow the city of Hammond had to pay a lot of money towards the

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