Eva Hernandez, as Next Friend of Juan Hernandez v. Wilfredo Crespo-Velez, M.D.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding “that the 12-man panel is not a necessary ingredient of ‘trial by jury’” as described by the Sixth Amendment
• rule requiring notice to the State of an alibi defense and to disclose alibi witnesses does not violate a defendant’s privilege against self-incrimination
• Florida statute requiring defendant to disclose witnesses to be used in establishing alibi but granting corresponding rights to the accused does not violate due process or privilege against self-incrimination
• “the right to testify is the right to choose between the competing rights of testifying and remaining silent.”
• trial should not be turned “into a mere ‘poker game’ to be won by the most skilled tactician”
• “[W]e conclude that petitioner’s Sixth Amendment rights, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, were not violated by ... a six-man rather than a 12-man jury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).