Cases involving the fourth amendment pertain to searches and seizures, electronic surveillance, and the exclusionary rule. Court decisions pertaining to the fifth amendment concern self-incrimination, grand jury proceedings, double jeopardy, and due process. Decisions stemming from the sixth amendment relate to identification practices, counsel, speedy and public trial, confrontation of witnesses, and compulsory process. Court decisions impacting pretrial proceedings address prosecutorial discretion and conduct, pretrial release, competency, joinder and severance, disclosure and discovery, time for trial, the Speedy Trial Act, and interstate agreement on detainers. Other court decisions involve guilty pleas, juries, evidence rules, sentencing, and appeals and habeas corpus. Chapter footnotes