Legal Opinion
Singer v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 1, 1965No. 42PublishedCited by 773 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Warren
Rule 23 (a) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure provides:
“Cases required to be tried by jury shall be so tried unless the defendant waives a jury trial in writing with the approval of the court and the consent of the government.”
Petitioner challenges the permissibility of this rule, arguing that the Constitution gives a defendant in a federal criminal case the right to waive a jury trial whenever he believes such action to be in his best interest, regardless of whether the prosecution and the court are willing to acquiesce in the waiver.
Petitioner was charged in a federal district…
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