Something over 90%, perhaps more than 95%, of criminal cases are handled via plea bargains. Which don’t require prosecutors to do anything difficult or stressful.
So obviously they have an incentive to make an example of those who refuse to go along. Guilt, innocence and the Constitution be damned.
“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed”
Nothing I can see in there about using anything other than the calendar everybody else uses. If a state, with all its resources, cannot be ready for trial in six months from the date of arrest, drop the charges.
It also seems pretty obvious to me that in practice the 90% or 95% or more of cases that end in plea bargains have de facto repealed 6A.
The Bronx courts handled about 4160 felony cases in one of the years Browder was jailed. Just about 4000 were plea-bargained.
One judge hired for the purpose managed to close 1000 cases. “At the start of 2013, there were nine hundred and fifty-two felony cases in the Bronx, including Browder’s, that were more than two years old. In the next twelve months, DiMango disposed of a thousand cases, some as old as five years.” (New Yorker, Oct. 6, 2014)
They (the "law" side) 'can' even lie since they have not sworn in under oath.