(DOWNLOAD) "Proctor J. Baker v. City Fairbanks" by Supreme Court of Alaska # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Proctor J. Baker v. City Fairbanks
- Author : Supreme Court of Alaska
- Release Date : January 05, 1970
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 78 KB
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This case raises important questions about the right to jury trial for certain city ordinance violations. This necessarily means that we must reconsider the rationale of the opinion in Knudsen v. City of Anchorage, 358 P.2d 375 (Alaska 1960), which held that a person charged with a violation of a city ordinance prohibiting reckless driving was not entitled to a jury trial. Since Knudsen was decided, the United States Supreme Court in Duncan v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145, 88 S. Ct. 1444, 20 L. Ed. 2d 491 (1968), has made applicable to the states, through the Fourteenth Amendment due process clause, the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial in criminal cases other than those traditionally labeled "petty offenses." It is with the implications of the Duncan decision and the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial that we must deal in the present decision.