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27 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 375 (1993-1994)
A Corporation's Right to a Jury Trial under the Sixth Amendment

handle is hein.journals/davlr27 and id is 385 raw text is: A Corporation's Right to a Jury Trial Under the Sixth Amendment Alan L. Adlestein* TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCrION ................................................. 376 I. BACKGROUND: LAW AND PARADOXES .................... 382 A. The Corporate Criminal Liability Paradox ............. 383 B. The Constitutional Jury Right Paradox ................ 388 II. DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO A CRIMINAL JURY TRIL ...................... 396 A. The Opening Chapter-The Federal Petty/Serious Demarcation ....................................... 396 B. The Middle Chapter-Constitutional Incorporation and the Six Months Indicator ............................ 401 C. The Latest Chapter-Blanton v. City of North Las Vegas and United States v. Nachtigal .............. 410 III. THE STATUTORY REFERENCE POINT APPROACH TO THE SIXTH AMENDMENT ...................................... 419 IV. THE CRIMINAL CONTEMPT CASES AND THE STANDARD OF THE PENALTY ACTUALLY IMPOSED ....................... 425 A. The Natural Person Cases ........................... 425 B. The Entity Cases and Muniz v. Hoffman ............ 428 V. THE ADMINISTRATIVE PUNISHMENT OF CORPORATIONS AND THE SENTENCING GUIDELINES ....................... 438 A. Administrative Punishment .......................... 438 B. The Sentencing Guidelines and the New Chapter Eight. 444 VI. AN APPROACH TO SOLUTION .............................. 449 CONCLUSION .................................................... 457 * Associate Professor, Widener University School of Law. B.A., Cornell University, 1963; J.D., Harvard University, 1966. The Author thanks Professors Kathleen F. Brickey, Michael J. Cozzillio, Carolyn L. Dessin, G. Randall Lee, and Robert C. Power for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this Article.