There is little evidence that the right to a jury trial is being widely abused.
Unlike with the current affair, Lay waived his right to a jury trial on the bank-loan charges.
The parents sued, saying the cap was an unconstitutional intrusion into their right to a jury trial.
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The Democrats waived their right to a jury trial and placed all their hopes with the judge.
Thanks in part to this kind of coercion, more than 90 percent of defendants waive their right to a jury trial.
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Sass, who once worked as a U.S. government informant, had waived his right to a jury trial and asked Cook to decide the case.
Mr Blakely appealed, citing his constitutional right to a jury trial.
He alleges the SEC's administrative action would deny him his right to a jury trial and other procedural safeguards available if the case had been brought in civil court.
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And a change in the law allowed plaintiffs to sue employers not just for back wages but also for damages, and gave them the right to a jury trial.
But the Fraud (Trials Without A Jury) Bill died a death after being blocked in the House of Lords by peers who felt the right to a jury trial was sacrosanct.
Judge Sim Lake, a by-the-books judge if there ever was one, will levy a verdict himself because Lay waved his right to a jury trial in hopes of a speedy decision on the bank fraud allegation.
Of more than 400, 000 defendants a year with the right to choose a jury trial, only 18, 500 do so and this number has halved in the past 10 years.
Trying to force Swartz (or anyone) to take a plea bargain by throwing the book at him erodes our right to a trial by jury.
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Indeed, the ICC may very well have the last word, given that the U.S. legal system provides various protections, such as the right to a trial by jury, which may be deemed inconsistent with ICC rules and procedures.
He is determined to abolish the right of some defendants to opt for a trial by jury.
Gupta sued the SEC in federal court, saying that the administrative proceeding deprived him of his constitutional right to a jury and also deprived him of the pre-trial discovery available in federal court but not in administrative proceedings.
These will not, however, include such pillars of U.S. criminal jurisprudence as a trial by a jury of the defendant's peers or the right to confront his or her accusers.
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