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Ludwig Vs. Massachusetts

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 30, 1976

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  1. Colten Vs. Kentucky US Supreme Court · Jun 12, 1972
  2. Duncan Vs. Louisiana US Supreme Court · May 20, 1968
  3. United States Vs. Jenkins US Supreme Court · Feb 25, 1975
  4. Callan Vs. Wilson US Supreme Court · May 14, 1888
  5. North Carolina Vs. Pearce US Supreme Court · Jun 23, 1969
  6. Apodaca Vs. Oregon US Supreme Court · May 22, 1972
  7. Argersinger Vs. Hamlin US Supreme Court · Jun 12, 1972
  8. United States Vs. Ball US Supreme Court · May 25, 1896
  9. U.S. 618 (1976) U.S. Supreme Court Ludwig v. Massachusetts
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  10. U.S. 618 (1976) Ludwig v. Massachusetts
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  11. of serious crimes, and the manner specified for exercising this right is fair and not unduly burdensome. Callan v. Wilson
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  12. the second tier impermissibly burden the accused's right to a jury Page 427 U. S. 619 trial. North Carolina v. Pearce
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  13. violates the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment made applicable to the States by the Fourteenth. Benton v. Maryland
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  14. I Massachusetts is one of several States having a two-tier system of trial courts for criminal cases. See Colten v. Kentucky
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  15. he is limited, instead, to a challenge to his sentence. Commonwealth v. Crapo
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  16. Supp. 1976-1977). See also Mann v. Commonwealth
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  17. Jones v. Robbins
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  18. Unlike the two-tier Kentucky system under consideration in Colten v. Kentucky
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  19. b) and (c) (1969 and Supp. 1976-1977). See Almeida v. Lucey
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  20. Boyle v. Registrar
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  21. N.E.2d 467 (1975). Relying on its earlier decision in Whitmarsh v. Commonwealth
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  22. See Costarelli v. Massachusetts
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  23. jury trial, and whether certain features of the 18th century common law jury are inherent in the right. In Duncan v. Louisiana
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  24. to deprive him of his liberty without affording him an opportunity to have his guilt determined by a jury. Baldwin v. New
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  25. York, 399 U. S. 66 (1970) (plurality opinion). In Williams v. Florida
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  26. U. S. 78 (1970), and in Apodaca v. Oregon
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  27. Williams v. Florida
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  28. U.S. at 399 U. S. 100 , quoting Duncan v. Louisiana
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  29. the State is required to furnish him counsel without cost before he may be deprived of his liberty. Argersinger v. Hamlin
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  30. burdens the exercise of an accused's right to a trial by jury is controlled by the decisions in North Carolina v. Pearce
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  31. U. S. 711 (1969), and Colten v. Kentucky
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  32. of the Speedy Trial Clause of the Sixth Amendment, made applicable to the States by means of the Fourteenth. Klopfer v. North
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  33. is to increase efficiency. Our disposition of this case does not require us to disturb the holding in Callan v. Wilson
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  34. Brief for Appellant 66. Appellee responds by quoting from North Carolina v. Pearce
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  35. At least since 1896, when United States v. Ball
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  36. of the Double Jeopardy Clause and its interpretation were canvassed by the Court only last Term in United States v. Wilson
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  37. and Serfass v. United
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  38. United States v. Wilson
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  39. these Page 427 U. S. 632 circumstances, it long has been clear that the State may reprosecute. United States v. Ball
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  40. failure to take an appeal would constitute a knowing and intelligent waiver of the right to trial by jury. See Boykin v. Alabama
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  41. of opinion concerning the validity of the two-tier procedure typified by the Massachusetts system. Compare State v. Holliday
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  42. R.I. 93, 280 A.2d 333 (1971), with Manns v. Commonwealth
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  43. Walker v. Dillard
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  44. Whitmarsh v. Commonwealth
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  45. course, that a person who is accused of crime may receive a fair trial before a magistrate or judge. Cf. Argersinger v. Hamlin
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  46. constitutional right to be tried by a jury reflects that judgment. In this respect, the present case differs from Ward v. Village
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  47. In support of the contrary contention, appellant cites United States v. Jackson
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  48. right, by a method such as that, may be corrected, of course, in individual instances. See North Carolina v. Pearce
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  49. the Fourteenth Amendment is not identical to that guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment. See my opinion in Apodaca v. Oregon
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  50. I add only that Callan v. Wilson
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