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assignment for details on what should be included.

The Criminal Bar Association has found the right to due process in the case of Dwight Dexter v.
Michigan State was not upheld. The three areas in which his rights were violated are the right
to a fair and impartial jury, the right to competent counsel, and finally the right to protection
under the Fourteenth Amendment from unreasonable searches.

Argument #1 - Under the Sixth Amendment all defendants have the right to an impartial jury

In The Supreme Court of the United States

Dexter (Petitioner) v.
Michigan State Prosecutor (Respondent)

On Writ of Certiorari
To the Supreme Court of the United States

Brief Amicus Curiae Of The

Criminal Bar Association

In Support of Dexter (Petitioner)

● A position statement of at least three sentences in which you take a stance on this question:
Were the rights of Dwight Dexter upheld in the criminal justice system?
● Three one-paragraph arguments that support your position statement. Each paragraph should
begin with a clear topic sentence and incorporate evidence—facts, examples, or quotations—that
support your topic sentence.
● References to at least two constitutional articles or amendments that support your position.
● Reference to at least one Supreme Court precedent that supports your position.
● A conclusion of at least three sentences in which you restate your position and reiterate your
most important points.
● A signature line that reads,

Dwight Dexter's rights were not upheld in the criminal justice system, three regions were
violated such as the right to a competent counsel, the right to a fair and impartial jury and the right to
protection under the Fourth Amendment from unreasonable searches.
Beginning with the right to a competent counsel, Dexter’s counsel did not have the correct
knowledge to be able to perform the position or task he was given, he had not done anything to help or
defend Dexter, for example not calling any witnesses to support the case. This violates Dexter’s 6th
amendment and indicates that his rights were not upheld.
Moving on we can look at the right to a fair and impartial jury. As we can see in the Jury
Selection in the trial of Dwight Dexter, the original jury pool consisted of White Males, White Females,
African American Males & African American Females… But the final jury included no African
Americans. In this case excluding these African Americans by peremptory strike for reasons that aren’t
that big of a deal doesn’t construct an impartial jury given that the petitioner Dexter is an African
American.
 The last violation we will be inspecting is the right to protection under the Fourth Amendment
from unreasonable searches. In the notes from Sheriff Dodd it states, “After Dexter returned to his car, I
pulled the car over and searched it (I didn’t have time to
get a search warrant). I found a .22 caliber pistol in the car, but not the .25 caliber gun used
in the murder.” This goes against Dexter’s fourth amendment interpreting that it protects people from
unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. Another case where this can be seen is in Ted
Chimel V. The State of California, where The Plaintiff (Ted Chimel) denied the request to search the
house, but the police officers proceeded to search the house. They found coins which were stolen and
later used to convict the plaintiff.
The rights of Dwight Dexter in his case were not upheld in the criminal justice system, his
fourth, fifth, and sixth amendments were violated. The explanations of each were strongly listed and
backed up in the previous paragraphs and should be overlooked.

Respectfully submitted, Isaiah Weiss & Aissa England

Attorney at Law, Criminal Bar Association