The greatest criminal cases
Subtitle: changing the course of American law
By: J.  Michael Martinez
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781440828683
Subjects: Trials; Criminal procedure; Cases
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: Hurtado v. California (1884) and 19th-century criminal procedure; title: Weeks v. United States (1914) and the origins of the exclusionary rule; title: Olmstead v. United States (1928) and wiretapping the "baby lieutenant"; title: Powell v. Alabama (1932) and the Scottsboro boys; title: Brown v. Mississippi (1936) and fundamental fairness; title: Mapp v. Ohio (1961) and the exclusionary rule redux; title: Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) and the right to counsel; title: Miranda v. Arizona (1966) and the right to remain silent; title: Katz v. United States (1967) and the right to privacy; title: Terry v. Ohio (1968) and the stop-and-frisk search; title: Chimel v. California (1969) and searches incident to arrest; title: United States v. Leon (1984) and a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule; title: California v. Hodari D (1991) and determining when a "seizure" occurs; title: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006) and trial by jury.