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Criminal Procedure -- An Analysis of Cases and Concepts, Second Edition, 1989 Supplement

NCJ Number
127446
Author(s)
C H Whitebread; C Slobogin
Date Published
1989
Length
104 pages
Annotation
This supplement covers the 1986-87, 1987-88, and 1988-89 terms of the United States Supreme Court.
Abstract
Issues concerning the fourth and fifth amendments are covered, including arrest laws and the probable cause requirement, the fifth amendment's right against self-incrimination, and suggestions for revisions to the fourth amendment. The supplement also includes the Court's decisions on civil rights actions, interrogation, preventive detention, plea bargaining, the right to jury trial, the right of confrontation, retroactivity, habeas corpus, the right to counsel, entrapment, the role of the lawyer, the relationship between the Federal and State courts, and an analysis of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986. A table of cases appears with reference to pages.

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