Is the vicinage clause of the Sixth Amendment incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment to apply in a state criminal trial?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Clark, 203 Cal.Rptr.3d 407, 372 P.3d 811, 63 Cal.4th 522 (Cal. 2016):
vicinage clause of the Sixth Amendment32 has not been incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment to apply in a state criminal trial. (price v. superior court, supra, 25 cal.4th at pp. 10631069, 108 Cal.Rptr.2d 409, 25 P.3d 618.) For vicinage rights under the state Constitution, the vicinage right implied in article I, section 16 of the California Constitution ... constitutes simply the right
[203 Cal.Rptr.3d 443]
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