NCJ Number
151663
Date Published
1994
Length
153 pages
Annotation
This volume presents and comments on recent appellate court decisions related to police legal limitations and the judicial process.
Abstract
The cases relate to confessions and interrogations, eyewitness identification procedures, wiretapping and electronic surveillance, arrests, search and seizure law, the exclusionary rule, alternative remedies for unlawful investigative practices, legal limitations on undercover work, and prosecutorial discretion. Additional cases focus on the rights of indigent defendants in formal criminal proceedings, the preliminary hearing, grand jury proceedings, pretrial motions, competency to stand trial, pleas, trial by jury, the quality of representation by counsel, problems encountered in presenting the case, submitting the case to the jury, sentencing, and appellate and other posttrial remedies. Notes and case citations