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| | Do Defendants Have The Same Rights When Facing Misdemeanor And Felony Charges? | | | A defendant charged with a misdemeanor has fewer legal rights than a defendant charged with a felony. If the defendant will not face imprisonment as a result of conviction, he has no right to an attorney. There is no right to indictment by grand jury, or to a "preliminary examination" to review the basis of the charges filed. In some states, misdemeanor charges are tried before six person juries, whereas felonies are ordinarily tried before twelve person juries. Most other rights are the same, for both felonies and misdemeanors.
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On September 2, 1963, Alabama Governor George Wallace surrounded Tuskegee high school with Alabama National Guard troops in an effort to prevent its integration pursuant to a federal court order in Lee v. Macon County. In response, President John Kennedy federalized the Guard and sent it back to its barracks. Wallace opposing the integration of the University of Alabama Learn more about George Wallace from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
On September 1, 2009, the Commonwealth of Nations suspended Fiji from its organization because it failed to meet the September 1 deadline for reinstating a constitutional democracy and opening a national dialog following the December 2006 military coup. Fiji's acting Prime Minister Ratu Epeli Ganilau argued that it was not possible to meet the Commonwealth's deadline because of the extent of political reform in the country, and that elections would be held in 2014. Fiji flag Learn more about international reaction to the 2006 coup from the JURIST news archive.
On September 4, 2007, Washington, DC Mayor Adrian Fenty and DC Attorney General Linda Singer appealed the ruling of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit invalidating DC's handgun ban to the US Supreme Court. The court had found that the city's 30-year-old ban on private possession of handguns was unconstitutionally broad. The Supreme Court ruled against DC in the case, District of Columbia v. Heller, finding that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to private gun ownership. Learn more about the Second Amendment from Cornell University's Legal Information Institute.
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