In some cases, your bond may be financial: You may not be able to replace the totaled car with the money your insurance company is willing to pay. Typically cars are totaled when damage exceeds 65 or 70 percent of the vehicle's market value.
The Sixth Amendment guarantees the rights of criminal defendants, including the right to a public trial without unnecessary delay, the right to a lawyer, the right to an impartial jury, and the right to know who your accusers are and the nature of the charges and evidence against you.
The Sixth Amendment guarantee is apparently a personal right of the defendant, which he may in some circumstances waive in conjunction with the prosecution and the court.39 The First Amendment, however, has been held to protect public and press ac cess to trials in all but the most extraordinary circumstances,40 hence a defendantâs request for closure of his trial must be balanced against the public and press right of access.