NCJ Number
113247
Date Published
1988
Length
171 pages
Annotation
This 1988 supplement to the third edition of 'Criminal Procedure' summarizes and comments on court cases pertaining to limitations on law enforcement practices and procedures and the judicial process.
Abstract
This supplement contains 8 principal cases and notes on approximately 45 other U.S. Supreme Court decisions and 100 State and lower Federal court opinions. Cases dealing with limitations on law enforcement practices and procedures encompass the topics of confessions and interrogations; eye-witness identification procedures; the law of arrest, search, and seizure; wiretapping and electronic surveillance; exclusionary principles and alternative remedies for unlawful investigative practices; and the limits of undercover work. Cases focusing on aspects of judicial process address the issues of prosecutorial discretion, the rights of indigents in formal criminal proceedings, the preliminary hearing, grand jury proceedings, and the right to bail. Other cases pertaining to judicial process cover pretrial motions, competency to stand trial, disclosure and discovery, pleas, jury trial, the quality of representation by counsel, problems encountered in case presentation, submission of the case to the jury, sentencing alternatives, and appellate and other post-trial remedies. Table of cases.