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Betts V. Brady Twenty Years Later: The Right To Counself And Due Process Values, Yale Kamisar Dec 1962

Betts V. Brady Twenty Years Later: The Right To Counself And Due Process Values, Yale Kamisar

Michigan Law Review

I am quite distressed by talk that the landmark case of Mapp v. Ohio "suggests by analogy" that the Court may now overrule Betts v. Brady. For whether one talks about the fourth or the sixth amendment, there is much to be said for Justice Harlan's dissenting views in Mapp. "[W]hatever configurations ... have been developed in the particularizing federal precedents" should not be "deemed a part of 'ordered liberty,' and as such ... enforceable against the States .... [W]e would not be true to the Fourteenth Amendment were we merely to stretch the general principle [ of …


State Criminal Confession Cases: Subsequent Developments In Cases Reversed By U.S. Supreme Court And Some Current Problems, Wilfred J. Ritz Sep 1962

State Criminal Confession Cases: Subsequent Developments In Cases Reversed By U.S. Supreme Court And Some Current Problems, Wilfred J. Ritz

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Dilemma Of The Directed Acquittal, Richard H. Winningham Jun 1962

The Dilemma Of The Directed Acquittal, Richard H. Winningham

Vanderbilt Law Review

Some of the worst abuses of state criminal due process, the author believes, result from anachronistic and artificial restraints which prevent the trial judge from directing acquittals. Therefore,he advocates for all states a uniform policy and practice recognizing and authorizing directed acquittals where the evidence is legally insufficient to support a conviction.


Twenty-Five Years Of State Criminal Confession Cases In The U. S. Supreme Court, Wilfred J. Ritz Mar 1962

Twenty-Five Years Of State Criminal Confession Cases In The U. S. Supreme Court, Wilfred J. Ritz

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Evidence - Criminal Insanity - Psychologist's Diagnosis Regarding Mental Disease Or Defect Admissible On Issue Of Insanity, C. Clark Hodgson Jr. Jan 1962

Evidence - Criminal Insanity - Psychologist's Diagnosis Regarding Mental Disease Or Defect Admissible On Issue Of Insanity, C. Clark Hodgson Jr.

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.