NCJ Number
173124
Date Published
1997
Length
84 pages
Annotation
This volume discusses all of the significant US Supreme Court decisions concerning criminal procedure during the five terms spanning the years 1992 through 1997.
Abstract
The volume also analyzes a few of the leading lower court cases decided during 1992-1997, as well as the provisions of the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, Congress's attempt to reform the laws governing the Federal writ of habeas corpus. The document contains 34 chapters concerning the following major subjects: The Fourth Amendment; The Fifth Amendment's Privilege Against Self-Incrimination; The Pretrial Process; Adjudication of Guilt; The Role of the Defense Lawyer; and The Relationship Between the Federal and State Courts. Individual chapters discuss a variety of topics, including the law of arrest; regulatory inspections and searches; constraints on prosecutorial discretion; guilty pleas and plea bargaining; adversarial rights; double jeopardy; the right to counsel; Federal habeas corpus; and State constitutions as an independent source of rights. Table of cases, notes