Sixth Amendment

1. Source:
Sixth Amendment
http://www.toondoo.com/cartoon/380984. October 3, 2008

2. Constituional Connection:
The Sixth Amendment
"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial..."

3. Explanation of Connection:
The cartoon explains how a person could use his or her rights to quickly get out a problem dealing with givernment. In this cartoon, the character uses her right to a speedy trial. Things that are important to look at are the officers uniform, his or face, the age of the lady. Usually a police officer wear a blue uniform, but this officer had unfiorm of someone that is in the army. The fact that the officer didnt have facial features could  be that the artist didnt want someone to have personal attachment to him. He/she wanted us to just look at the officer.

At first the elderly lady was frantic and kind of upset that she had gotten arrested. She thought it was going to take tons of her time to get through it. Until she learned her rights. She found that through the Sixth Amendment she did not have to go through a long process. She could enjoy a speedy trail. This shows usefulness because the elder woman had other priorities, in this case grocery shopping, and was able to complete her task because of the Sixth Amendment. This could happen to anyone and the may be have other priorities to attend to that may be greater in importance than the elderly lady.

The first frame was kind of weird to me because the elderly woman was not doing anything illegal.Which made me believe that the artist was questioning the opinion of the government. He seem like the artist was trying to say that anyone could be arrested at anytime for no reason at all. I also wonder why the artist made the elderly woman soo focused on grocery shopping, because you can grocery shop any day. Which made me futhermore think the artist was trying to portray the lady as just trying to get out of her situation.