Database Name: Constitutional Rights of the Accused
Database Identifier: CONRTACC
Coverage
Current through the July 2009 Supplement
Updates: Annually
Content Highlights:
Constitutional Rights of the Accused is a multi-volume set covering the federal constitutional rights of persons accused or convicted of a crime.
New features and recent developments in the 2008 update include:
| U.S. v. Kattaria, 503 F.3d 703 (8th Cir. 2007), applying the Terry Stop "reasonable suspicion" standard to investigative warrants when police request thermal imaging of a home. [See s 4:11] |
| U.S. v. Forrester, 512 F.3d 500 (9th Cir. 2008), while preserving the distinction between Smith and Katz, the Ninth Circuit cited Smith to support the holding that defendants have no expectation of privacy in the to/from addresses and IP addresses of e-mail communications. [See s4:15] |
| People v. Kiney, 151 Cal. App. 4th 807, 60 Cal. Rptr. 3d 168 (3d Dist. 2007), in which the California Appellate Court held that there was no violation of the defendant's Fifth Amendment rights, when the court allowed the introduction of statements he made at a previous trial in which he defended himself pro se pursuant to exercise of his Sixth Amendment rights. [See s 9:1] |
| Getsy v. Mitchell, 495 F.3d 295 (6th Cir. 2007), confirming that there is no constitutional requirement of consistent verdicts against accomplices tried separately. [See s26:3] |
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Contents
Content Type(s): Treatise
This database contains Constitutional Rights of the Accused, 3d. This multi-volume set overviews the federal constitutional rights of persons throughout the criminal process; from initial accusation through post-conviction sentencing, and includes coverage of such topics as constitutional limitations on criminalization of behavior and prosecution of offenses, arrest, search and seizure, entrapment, confessions, witness identification, Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights, bail, indictment, pleas, indigent defendants, prosecutorial misconduct, punishment and double jeopardy.
A document is a numbered section of text, index or other subdivision of this publication.
Publisher/Provider: Thomson Reuters/West
Author Joseph G. Cook is the Williford Gragg Professor of Law at The University of Tennessee College of Law. He holds a J.D from the University of Alabama and an LL.M. from Yale University. He has received the L.R. Hesler Award for Excellence in Teaching and Service, the Carden Award for Outstanding Scholarship, the Harold C. Warner Outstanding Teacher Award (twice), the Forrest W. Lacey Award (twice), and the UT Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award. Professor Cook is a Trustee of the Tennessee Justice Foundation.
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