The Seventh Amendment would still apply to Civil matters tried in any court.n5wd wrote:Your problem with claiming that the 6th amendment to the Constitution prevents you from being prosecuted is that you're in Texas, and the legislature in Texas specifically made red-light cameras a CIVIL complaint, and not a criminal complaint, which is where the 6th amendment would come in to play. Maryland sounds like they do as a low-grade criminal offense, just like Texas, when they issue you a traffic ticket from a cop.RoyGBiv wrote:The Sixth Amendment.?jmra wrote:Idk, but why don't you just pay it?
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In Texas, they will come after you civily - by preventing your re-registration of your vehicle, in some counties of the state (Tarrant county, where I live, is one of those - got to watch a young 20-ish guy be told he couldn't re-register his car because of an outstanding red-light ticket, then cause a ruckuss in the northwest sub-courthouse, and then get himself hauled away by the Tarrant County Sherrif's Office for disorderly conduct and assault by contact - now THAT would get your CHL cancelled). They can also do things that will wind up on your credit report, since it is a civil fine, and not a criminal offense.
See this page to learn how to contest it: http://fortworthtexas.gov/tpw/info/?id=50258
Once in court, you have the right (6thA) to face your accuser.
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.