NCJ Number
127813
Date Published
1990
Length
650 pages
Annotation
Based on classical and current decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, Federal circuit courts, and State courts, this book portrays criminal procedures involved in arrest, search, and seizure; interviews and confessions, eyewitness identification, and the rights to counsel and confrontation; the possession and distribution of illegal substances; and law enforcement civil liability.
Abstract
The core of each chapter consists of court cases, mostly those rendered by the U.S. Supreme Court and Federal circuit courts which have been analyzed, dissected, and restructured into a question-and-answer format. some chapters contain an introduction that provides an overview of the legal tenets bearing upon the criminal procedure being discussed. Topics discussed in Part I include arrest procedures, search warrants, warrantless searches, areas not constitutionally protected from searches, non-governmental searches, regulatory and administrative searches, fire-scene searches, stop-and-frisk detentions, the independent source doctrine and the inevitable discovery rule, and the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule. Part II addresses the implications of the "Miranda" court decision for police interviews and suspect confessions, legal parameters for eyewitness identification, and the legal aspects of the right to counsel and the right to confront adverse witnesses. Part III covers the evidence required to establish constructive possession and distribution of drugs, and Part IV discusses factors in establishing and defending against police civil liability. Appended text of the U.S. Constitution, list of current justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, glossary, table of cases, and a subject index