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NCJ Number:	151663

Title:	Cases and Comments on Criminal Procedure, Fourth Edition, 1994 Supplement

Author(s):	J B Haddad; J B Zagel; G L Starkman; W J Bauer

Date Published:	1994

Page Count:	153

Sponsoring Agency:	Foundation Press New York, NY 10001

Publication Number:	ISBN 1-56662-224-7

Sale Source:	Foundation Press 11 Penn Plaza, Tenth Floor New York, NY 10001 United States of America

Type:	Legislation/Policy Analysis

Language:	English

Country:	United States of America

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

Main Term(s):	Criminology

Index Term(s):	Appellate court decisions; Court procedures; Police legal limitations



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