NCJ Number
157243
Date Published
1995
Length
227 pages
Annotation
This 1995 supplement to the Fourth Edition of "Cases and Comments on Criminal Procedure" updates court decisions on practices pertinent to legal limitations on law enforcement practices and procedures as well as court mandates for the judicial process.
Abstract
A supplement to the "Introduction: Outline of Criminal Procedure" presents the conclusion of the "Emerging International Consensus as to Criminal Procedure Rules" (1993), a survey of criminal procedure of England, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and Italy. The supplementary court decisions summarized pertain to the following law enforcement practices and procedures: confessions and interrogations; eye-witness identification procedures; wiretapping and electronic surveillance; the law of arrest, search, and seizure; exclusionary principles and alternative remedies for unlawful investigative practices; the limits of undercover work; and prosecutorial discretion. Court decisions that supplement the material on judicial process pertain to the rights of indigents in formal criminal proceedings, the preliminary hearing, grand jury proceedings, pretrial motions, competency to stand trial, pleas, jury trials, quality of counsel, problems encountered in case presentation, submitting the case to the jury, sentencing, and appellate and other posttrial remedies. A table of cases