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Gary Duncan, a black teenager in Louisiana, was found guilty of assaulting a white youth by allegedly slapping him on the elbow. Duncan was sentenced to 60�...
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Argued: January 17, 1968. Decided: May 20, 1968. Annotation. Primary Holding. The Fourteenth Amendment provides a right to a jury trial in criminal cases�...
Gary Duncan (defendant) was convicted of simple battery by a judge in a Louisiana state court. Under Louisiana law, simple battery is a misdemeanor�...
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Aug 18, 2017A video case brief of Duncan v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145 (1968). Read the full text brief at ...
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Appellant sought review in the Supreme Court of Louisiana, asserting that the denial of jury trial violated rights guaranteed to him by the United States�...
Duncan v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145 (1968), was a significant United States Supreme Court decision which incorporated the Sixth Amendment right to a jury�...
The Court reversed Duncan's conviction, concluding that the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial was fundamental. As a result, the Fourteenth Amendment�...

Duncan v. Louisiana

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Duncan v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145, was a significant United States Supreme Court decision which incorporated the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial and applied it to the states. Wikipedia
Date decided: 1968
Dissent: Harlan, joined by Stewart
Majority: White, joined by Warren, Black, Douglas, Brennan, Fortas, Marshall
Oct 12, 2022Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145 (1968), the landmark case that applied the Sixth Amendment's right to a jury trial to the states. Duncan, a Black man�...
The Appellant, Gary Duncan (Appellant), was convicted of simple battery, a misdemeanor, in a Louisiana district court. Under Louisiana law, jury trials are not�...
A criminal process which was fair and equitable but used no juries is easy to imagine. It would make use of alternative guarantees and protections which would�...