Thus, right to a jury trial in criminal cases is within the 14th Amendment, and therefore is applicable to the states.

Again, that would be impossible in the United States, where jury trial in criminal cases is guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment.

The Classified Information Procedures Act sought to provide a balanced approach to the inherently difficult task of holding a public trial in criminal cases involving classified material.

By the time of the municipal law of Julius Caesar (45 BC) special privileges were conferred on the decuriones, including the right to appeal to Rome for trial in criminal cases.

By a 7-2 majority the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Duncan, arguing that the right to a jury trial in criminal cases was fundamental and central to the American conception of justice.

Indeed, juries were central to the framers of the Constitution, who guaranteed the right to a jury trial in criminal cases, and to the drafters of the Bill of Rights, who referred to juries in the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Amendments.