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When Juveniles Face Questioning, Tamar R. Birckhead
When Juveniles Face Questioning, Tamar R. Birckhead
Tamar R Birckhead
This op-ed argues that the age of a suspect should be considered when evaluating whether the questioning was custodial, thereby triggering the right to Miranda warnings.
United States Supreme Court Amicus Curiae Brief Filed By Richard A. Leo In Florida V. Powell, 130 S. Ct. 1195, Richard Leo
United States Supreme Court Amicus Curiae Brief Filed By Richard A. Leo In Florida V. Powell, 130 S. Ct. 1195, Richard Leo
Richard A. Leo
This amicus brief, filed in Florida v. Powell, 130 S. Ct. 1195 (2010), addresses the question of whether a suspect is adequately informed of his right to the presence of counsel during custodial interrogation when advised only of his "right to talk to a lawyer before answering any of our questions."
The Gatehouses & Mansions: Fifty Years Later, Alexa Koenig, Richard Leo
The Gatehouses & Mansions: Fifty Years Later, Alexa Koenig, Richard Leo
Alexa Koenig
In 1965, Yale Kamisar authored “Equal Justice in the Gatehouses and Mansions of American Criminal Procedure,” an article that would come to have an enormous impact on the development of criminal procedure and American norms of criminal justice. Today, that article is a seminal work of scholarship, hailed for “playing a significant part in producing some of the [Warren] Court’s most important criminal- procedure decisions” (White 2003-04), including Miranda v. Arizona. The most influential concept Kamisar promoted may have been his recognition of a gap that loomed between the Constitutional rights actualized in mansions (courts) versus gatehouses (police stations). Kamisar …