3 A.J. Home Criminal Procedures Chapter 2 True or False Questions 1. According to the critics of the incorporation doctrine, incorporation destroys federalism. The incorporation doctrine has imposed a straitjacket on state and local criminal justice. Many of the Bill of Rights guarantees have been made applicable to and binding on the states through the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure do not address the period prior to arrest.
Adjudication includes all the steps from arrest to conviction.
Equal protection of the law means that states must treat everybody alike. In Brown v. Mississippi , a case involving a Mississippi black man who was tortured into confessing to a murder, the Supreme Court ruled that criminal procedure was a totally local matter. The guarantees set forth in the Constitution and in the Bill of Rights were initially intended to give suspects, defendants, and offenders rights. The United States Supreme Court has no authority to interpret state constitution as long as state constitutional provisions and the decisions interpreting them meet the standards set by the United States Constitution. The United States Constitution is a complete code of criminal procedure.