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Contingent Constitutionalism: State And Local Criminal Laws And The Applicability Of Federal Constitutional Rights, Wayne A. Logan Oct 2009

Contingent Constitutionalism: State And Local Criminal Laws And The Applicability Of Federal Constitutional Rights, Wayne A. Logan

Scholarly Publications

Americans have long been bound by a shared sense of constitutional commonality, and the Supreme Court has repeatedly condemned the notion that federal constitutional rights should be allowed to depend on distinct state and local legal norms. In reality, however, federal rights do indeed vary, and they do so as a result of their contingent relationship to the diversity of state and local laws on which they rely. Focusing on criminal procedure rights in particular, this Article examines the benefits and detriments of constitutional contingency, and casts in new light many enduring understandings of American constitutionalism, including the effects of …


Gerstein V. Pugh, 420 U.S. 103 (1975); In Re Florida Rules Of Criminal Procedure, 309 So. 2d 544 (Fla. 1975), R. Wayne Miller Oct 1975

Gerstein V. Pugh, 420 U.S. 103 (1975); In Re Florida Rules Of Criminal Procedure, 309 So. 2d 544 (Fla. 1975), R. Wayne Miller

Florida State University Law Review

Criminal Procedure- PRELIMINARY HEARINGS- NONADVERSARY JUDICIAL DETERMINATION OF PROBABLE CAUSE TO DETAIN IS PREREQUISITE TO EXTENDED RESTRAINT OF LIBERTY FOLLOWING ARREST.