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Jury Demand Must Be Timely
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1995, page 20
The court of appeals for the eleventh circuit, in a case of first impression for that circuit, held that the right to a jury trial is fundamental and reversed a bench trial ruling against a prisoner holding he should have received a jury trial. The case involves Robert Burns, a ...
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