The Sixth Amendment MCQ

_____ is known as provides for the assistance of counsel, the right to confront witnesses, a public and speedy trial that will be held in the venue where the crime was committed, and provides for compulsory process (subpoenas) for obtaining witnesses in the defendant’s favor

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Correct Answer: Sixth Amendment

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_____ is defined as recognized, although not explicitly stated, in the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

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Correct Answer: Right to self-representation

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_____ is under the standard announced by Strickland v. Washington (1984), counsel’s performance must fall below that expected of a reasonable attorney and such deficient performance must have affected the outcome of the case against the defendant

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Correct Answer: Ineffective assistance of counsel

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Is first appeal of right all convicted offenders have a right to one appeal under state or federal law; counsel appointed for mandatory appeals?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as unlawful when the government places an informant near a suspect represented by counsel to “deliberately elicit” incriminating statements, such as asking “Why did you do it?”

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Correct Answer: Deliberate elicitation

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_____ is defined as the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution, which gives defendants the right to see, hear, and confront (cross-examine) all witnesses against them in open court

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Correct Answer: Confrontation Clause

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The Sixth Amendment grants the right to counsel and counsel protects all due process rights to a fair trial, from investigation to execution.

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Correct Answer: True

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To prove a successful ineffective assistance of counsel claim, the defendant must prove counsel’s performance was deficient and counsel’s deficient performance did not change the outcome of the case.

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Correct Answer: False

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When the defendant has counsel, the government cannot use an undercover informant to trick the defendant into making incriminating statements.

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Correct Answer: True

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Court-appointed counsel is not required beyond the first appeal of right because the first appeal is examining______.

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Correct Answer: The sufficiency of evidence supporting the conviction

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Laboratory reports documenting the results of tests performed on drugs to be introduced against the defendant at trial cannot be admitted without a supporting witness pursuant to the Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause because______.

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Correct Answer: Lab results are considered “testimony”

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The U.S. Supreme Court held in the McCoy v. Louisiana (2018) case that the Sixth Amendment guarantees for a criminal defendant______.

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Correct Answer: The assistance of counsel

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Prior to granting a defendant his right to represent himself at trial, the court engages in a colloquy with the defendant to establish that he knows what he is doing and______.

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Correct Answer: The rights he is giving up by representing himself

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The venue rule was incorporated into the Sixth Amendment as a result of the early American colonists who were accused of treason and had to be______.

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Correct Answer: Brought back to England for trial

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Both the waiver of the right to counsel pursuant to Miranda v. Arizona (1966), and the Sixth Amendment, must be______.

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Correct Answer: Voluntary, intelligent, and knowing

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In the development of Sixth Amendment case law, the case where mental hospital escapee Robert Williams disclosed the location of his 10-year-old victim because of police officers talking between themselves in violation of Williams’s right to counsel, Detective Leaming gave what is known as ______.

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Correct Answer: The “Christian Burial Speech”

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The case Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) established______.

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Correct Answer: The right to counsel regardless of ability to pay

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The appointment of counsel for indigent defendants is by all of the following procedures EXCEPT______.

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Correct Answer: Hiring their own counsel

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In the Powell v. Alabama (1932) case, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the nine defendants were not______.

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Correct Answer: Accorded the right of counsel in any substantial sense

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When the government seeks to deprive a person of life, liberty, or property, to fight back, which of the following will help the person throughout the justice process?

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Correct Answer: A lawyer

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The Sixth Amendment says the accused shall . . . have the assistance of counsel. Generally, “the accused” means______.

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Correct Answer: Formal charges have been filed

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