Sixth Amendment Right to Trial on the Verge of Extinction

Mission

The End the Trial Penalty Coalition will eliminate coercive elements of plea bargaining to restore our fundamental constitutional rights including the right to jury trial.

Who We Are

End the Trial Penalty is an ideologically diverse alliance of individuals and organizations who each believe the Trial Penalty prevents us from achieving a truly just society.

Evidence of a Trial Penalty

U.S. Sentencing Commission data shows that over the past 32 years, the number of federal criminal cases that have gone to trial has decreased 63 percent.

Federal Sentences

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, “The Trial Penalty: The Sixth Amendment Right to Trial on the Verge of Extinction and How to Save it,” 2018, Figure 1.

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