NCJ Number
119331
Date Published
1989
Length
672 pages
Annotation
This text is designed to provide lawyers and judges with information about Federal and State cases that were decided during 1988 that related to criminal procedures.
Abstract
The text is based on a review of all United States Supreme Court, Federal appellate court, and district court decisions reported in 1988, as well as leading State court decisions reported in the "Criminal Law Reporter" and other sources. The discussion includes more than 2,500 citations to these cases as well as the citation of several dozen law review articles that appeared in 1988. Individual chapters deal with Fourth Amendment issues related to searches and seizures; Fifth Amendment issues related to self-incrimination, grand jury proceedings, double jeopardy, and due process; and Sixth Amendment issues related to suspect identification, the right to counsel, the right to a speedy and public trial, and the right to confrontation. Further chapters address pretrial proceedings, guilty pleas, juries, evidence, sentencing, appeals, and habeas corpus procedures. Footnotes.