Law

Explain how these rights and due process can be the basis for an appeal of a criminal trial, as shown in your reading assignment for this lesson

The U.S. Supreme Court has, through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, incorporated many of the protections and prohibitions contained in the Bill of Rights. By doing so, the Supreme Court has required that state and local governments obey those portions of the Bill of Rights that have been incorporated. Consider the following: […]