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Bill Cosby, The Lustful Disposition Exception, And The Doctrine Of Chances, Wesley Oliver
Bill Cosby, The Lustful Disposition Exception, And The Doctrine Of Chances, Wesley Oliver
Wesley M Oliver
The Neglected History Of Criminal Procedure, 1850-1940, Wesley M. Oliver
The Neglected History Of Criminal Procedure, 1850-1940, Wesley M. Oliver
Wesley M Oliver
Originalism has focused the attention of courts and academics on Framing Era history to interpret constitutional limits on police conduct. Previously unexplored sources reveal, however, that Framing Era limits on officers were expressly abandoned as professional police forces were created in the mid-nineteenth century and charged with aggressively investigating and preventing crime. The modern scheme of judicially supervised police investigations was then implemented after corruption and scandals of the 1920s. The development of modern criminal procedure has a rich historical background, but it has almost nothing to do with the events of the Framing Era.
Portland, Prohibition And Probable Cause: Maine's Role In Shaping Modern Criminal Procedure, Wesley M. Oliver
Portland, Prohibition And Probable Cause: Maine's Role In Shaping Modern Criminal Procedure, Wesley M. Oliver
Wesley M Oliver
At the time the Constitution was written, police officers had very little power. In most cases they were required to wait for a complaint from a victim to arrest, or a warrant from a magistrate to perform a search of any kind. Victims had extraordinary discretion in this era. Generally, only victims could seek arrest or search warrants and they were required only to allege that they had probable cause to support the arrest or search they sought. In most cases, an officer could not obtain a warrant even if he could provide the facts supporting his suspicions. Warrantless arrests …
Dred Scott And The Political Question Doctrine, Wesley M. Oliver
Dred Scott And The Political Question Doctrine, Wesley M. Oliver
Wesley M Oliver
No abstract provided.
Magistrates’ Examinations, Police Interrogations, And Miranda—Like Warnings In The Nineteenth Century, Wesley M. Oliver
Magistrates’ Examinations, Police Interrogations, And Miranda—Like Warnings In The Nineteenth Century, Wesley M. Oliver
Wesley M Oliver
The New York legislature in the early-nineteenth century began to require interrogators to warn suspects of their right to silence and counsel. The Warren Court, in Miranda v. Arizona, did not invent the language of the warnings; rather, it resurrected the warnings that were no longer given in New York after the latter half of the nineteenth century. The confessions rule, a judicially created rule of evidence much like the modern voluntariness rule, excluded many statements if any threat or inducement was made to the suspect. Courts in the early-nineteenth century, however, were willing to accept confessions notwithstanding an improper …
The Rise And Fall Of Material Witness Detention In Nineteenth Century New York, Wesley M. Oliver
The Rise And Fall Of Material Witness Detention In Nineteenth Century New York, Wesley M. Oliver
Wesley M Oliver
No abstract provided.