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Wesley M Oliver

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Magistrates’ Examinations, Police Interrogations, And Miranda—Like Warnings In The Nineteenth Century, Wesley M. Oliver Dec 2006

Magistrates’ Examinations, Police Interrogations, And Miranda—Like Warnings In The Nineteenth Century, Wesley M. Oliver

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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 Jan 2005

The Rise And Fall Of Material Witness Detention In Nineteenth Century New York, Wesley M. Oliver

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A Round Peg In A Square Hole: Federal Forfeiture Of State Professional Licenses, Wesley Oliver Dec 2000

A Round Peg In A Square Hole: Federal Forfeiture Of State Professional Licenses, Wesley Oliver

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With An Evil Eye And An Unequal Hand: Pretextual Stops And Doctrinal Remedies To Racial Profiling, Wesley Oliver Dec 1999

With An Evil Eye And An Unequal Hand: Pretextual Stops And Doctrinal Remedies To Racial Profiling, Wesley Oliver

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