NCJ Number
126275
Date Published
1991
Length
203 pages
Annotation
This document provides information on United States Supreme Court decisions affecting law enforcement.
Abstract
Analyses are provided on cases concerning probable cause, the exclusionary rule, stop and frisk, arrest, and searches and seizures. Also included are consent searches, vehicle searches, electronic surveillance, plain view, and open fields searches. Supreme Court decisions concerning line ups and other pretrial identification procedures, use of force, confessions and admissions, right to counsel, and entrapment are presented. The question of what constitutes interrogation is discussed along with the legal liabilities of police officers. Table of cases