Court Opinion

ID: 9451290
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 17:12:47.3927+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:39.087408
License: Public Domain

STALEY, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
I concur in the result reached by my Brother Freedman that petitioner *316was denied due process. I agree that he was denied the right to confront and cross-examine his accusers. Pointer v. State of Texas, 380 U.S. 400, 85 S.Ct. 1065, 13 L.Ed.2d 923 (1965); Douglas v. State of Alabama, 380 U.S. 415, 85 S. Ct. 1074, 13 L.Ed.2d 934 (1965). I further agree “that petitioner’s commitment is invalid, because [these] * * * constitutional rights were violated.” However, I cannot accede to the disposition made of petitioner’s argument that he was denied his right to trial by jury. My Brother Freedman refrains from deciding the issue of whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires a trial by jury in state criminal proceedings. The Supreme Court has explicitly ruled that he has no such right. Fay v. People of State of New York, 332 U.S. 261, 288, 67 S.Ct. 1613, 91 L.Ed. 2043 (1947); Snyder v. Com. of Massachusetts, 291 U.S. 97, 105, 54 S.Ct. 330, 78 L.Ed. 674 (1934); Jordan v. Com. of Massachusetts, 225 U.S. 167, 176, 32 S.Ct. 651, 56 L.Ed. 1038 (1912); Maxwell v. Dow, 176 U.S. 581, 602-603, 20 S.Ct. 494, 44 L.Ed. 597 (1900); Application of Tune, 230 F.2d 883, 886 (C.A.3, 1956).