Sixth Amendment: Overview - LII / Legal Information Institute
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webThe Sixth Amendment applies in criminal prosecutions. Only those acts that Congress has forbidden, with penalties for disobedience of its command, are crimes. 9. ; United States v. Eaton, 144 U.S. 677, 687 (1892). Actions to recover penalties imposed by act of Congress generally but not invariably have been held not to be criminal prosecutions, 10.
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