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NCJ Number: 44720 Find in a Library
Title: BURGER COURT, THE INDIVIDUAL, AND THE CRIMINAL PROCESS DIRECTIONS AND MISDIRECTIONS
Journal: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW  Volume:52  Issue:3  Dated:(JUNE 1977)  Pages:518-597
Author(s): E CHASE
Date Published: 1977
Annotation: THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES THE SHIFT IN THE COURSE OF SUPREME COURT CONSTITUTIONAL ADJUDICATION FROM THE WARREN COURT TO THE BURGER COURT, PARTICULARLY IN THE AREA OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
Abstract: THE EVOLVING VIEW OF THE FOURTH, FIFTH, AND SIXTH AMENDMENTS (I.E.,PROTECTIONS AGAINST UNREASONABLE SEARCHES AND SEIZURES AND COMPULSORY SELF-INCRIMINATION, AND RIGHTS TO COUNSEL, CONFRONTATION, AND CROSS-EXAMINATION IN CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN BURGER'S COURT ARE TRACED. THE AUTHOR ARGUES THAT THE BURGER COURT IS PRIMARILY CONCERNED WITH INCREASING THE PROBABILITY OF CONVICTING THE FACTUALLY GUILTY, HE MAINTAINS THAT THIS CONCERN, WHICH DEPRECIATES THE INTEREST OF THE COURT UNDER CHIEF JUSTICE EARL WARREN IN THE PROPRIETY OF CONDUCT BY STATE OFFICIALS TOWARDS CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS, CORRESPONDS TO A PARTICULAR MODE OF DECISIONMAKING USED BY THE BURGER COURT TO ALTER OR TO LIMIT THE DOCTRINES OF ITS PREDECESSOR, THE WARREN COURT, THIS TYPE OF DECISIONMAKING INVOLVES INTERPRETING THE TEXTUAL PROVISIONS OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS AS PRINCIPLES RATHER THAN RULES, THEREBY IMPOSING FEWER CONSTRAINTS ON BOTH STATE OFFICERS DEALING WITH CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS AND STATE COURTS ASSESSING THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF OFFICIAL CONDUCT. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT MODIFIED--VDA)
Index Term(s): Constitutional Rights/Civil Liberties; Decisionmaking; Judicial decisions; US Supreme Court
Sponsoring Agency: New York University
New York, NY 10012
Corporate Author: New York University
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United States of America
Page Count: 80
Format: Article
Language: English
Country: United States of America
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