An Amendment to C.III.XII
BE IT ENACTED BY THE STATE OF FIRESTONE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
SECTION 1: Article III, Section XII of the Constitution shall be amended.
SECTION 2: Article III, Section XII currently states, “All parties and witnesses within a court case must be sworn in as to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. The defendant of a court case shall have the right to choose whether or not their trial shall be done by Bench or by Jury. In the event of a Jury trial, the members of the Jury must be sworn in promising they do not know anyone involved in the court case; those that lie may be held in contempt of court and removed from the Jury, with a new juror being designated to take their place. The Jury must have a minimum of four (4) jurors to a maximum of twelve (12) jurors, at the discretion of the presiding Judge. The presiding Judge of the court case in question may designate a Head Juror, who shall be responsible for reading off the jury’s verdict. All verdicts done by the jury must be a unanimous agreement of all jurors and must be without a reasonable doubt: if the jury cannot decide on a unanimous agreement for verdict after all chances, the case shall be declared a mistrial and must be redone. The jury does not decide on a sentence for the defendant should the defendant be found guilty: only the presiding Judge shall decide on an appropriate sentence. Should the jury come to a unanimous verdict finding the defendant guilty, but the Judge has reasonable doubt otherwise, the Judge may declare mistrial. In the event of the bench trial, the presiding Judge shall be responsible for coming to a verdict without reasonable doubt as well as deciding on an appropriate sentence should the defendant be found guilty.”
SECTION 3: Article III, Section XII shall now state, “All parties and witnesses within a court case must be sworn in as to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. The defendant of a court case shall have the right to choose whether or not their trial shall be done by Bench or by Jury. In the event of a Jury trial, the members of the Jury must be sworn in promising they do not know anyone involved in the court case; those that lie may be held in contempt of court and removed from the Jury, with a new juror being designated to take their place. The Jury must have a minimum of six (6) jurors to a maximum of twelve (12) jurors, at the discretion of the presiding Judge. The presiding Judge of the court case in question may designate a Head Juror, who shall be responsible for reading off the jury’s verdict. All verdicts done by the jury must be a unanimous agreement of all jurors and must be without a reasonable doubt: if the jury cannot decide on a unanimous agreement for verdict after all chances, the case shall be declared a mistrial and must be redone. The jury does not decide on a sentence for the defendant should the defendant be found guilty: only the presiding Judge shall decide on an appropriate sentence. Should the jury come to a unanimous verdict finding the defendant guilty, but the Judge has reasonable doubt otherwise, the Judge may declare mistrial. In the event of the bench trial, the presiding Judge shall be responsible for coming to a verdict without reasonable doubt as well as deciding on an appropriate sentence should the defendant be found guilty.”
SECTION 4: This legislation shall go into effect immediately after the completion of the constitutional procedure required.
Chief Sponsor(s):
Representative ElloNT
Co-Sponsor(s):
SerZhukov