En Garde!
In Texas, you get a jury trial for any criminal offense, even those for which the maximum penalty is a fine. DWI, public intoxication, traffic offenses, spiting on the sidewalk — in Texas you have a right to a jury trial for any of these. You also have the right to counsel and, if you’re indigent, the right to appointed counsel.
I’d take a jury trial with ad hoc appointed counsel over a bench trial with a public defender any day. So, unless I am going to have the right to a jury trial for whatever I might be arrested for in Connecticut, my answer to your poll will have to be “it depends.â€
