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Introduction: Prosecutorial Ethics And The Right To A Fair Trial: The Role Of The Brady Rule In The Modern Criminal Justice System, Lewis R. Katz
Introduction: Prosecutorial Ethics And The Right To A Fair Trial: The Role Of The Brady Rule In The Modern Criminal Justice System, Lewis R. Katz
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Introduction to the Introduction Symposium: Prosecutorial Ethics and the Right to a Fair Trial: The Role of the Brady Rule in the Modern Criminal Justice System, Cleveland, Ohio, 2007.
Symposium On The Fortieth Anniversary Of Mapp V. Ohio - Forward, Lewis R. Katz
Symposium On The Fortieth Anniversary Of Mapp V. Ohio - Forward, Lewis R. Katz
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Foreword to the Symposium on the Fortieth Anniversary of Mapp v. Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio, 2001.
Mapp After Forty Years: Its Impact On Race In America, Lewis R. Katz
Mapp After Forty Years: Its Impact On Race In America, Lewis R. Katz
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United States V. Ross: Evolving Standards For Warrantless Searches, Lewis R. Katz
United States V. Ross: Evolving Standards For Warrantless Searches, Lewis R. Katz
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The purpose of this Article is to examine the Ross decision and its implications for related fourth amendment areas. It will also discuss the automobile exception, the broad scope of warrantless searches, and the possible emergence of a public place-proba
Reflections On Search And Seizure And Illegally Seized Evidence In Canada And The United States, Lewis R. Katz
Reflections On Search And Seizure And Illegally Seized Evidence In Canada And The United States, Lewis R. Katz
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The Automobile Exception Transformed: The Rise Of A Public Place Exemption To The Warrant Requirement, Lewis R. Katz
The Automobile Exception Transformed: The Rise Of A Public Place Exemption To The Warrant Requirement, Lewis R. Katz
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The Supreme Court in recent years has aggressively pursued restrictions on a person's Constitutional protections from unreasonable searches and seizures. Perhaps no better example exists of the radically changing fourth amendment analysis than the automobile exception to the warrant requirement This exception allows a law enforcement official with probable cause to believe that evidence of a crime is hidden in a vehicle to search that vehicle without obtaining a search warrant This Article explores the genesis and unchecked growth of the automobile exception from a necessary outgrowth of the exigencies of protecting police officers and preventing tampering with evidence, to …
Terry V. Ohio At Thirty: A Revisionist View, Lewis R. Katz
Terry V. Ohio At Thirty: A Revisionist View, Lewis R. Katz
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In this Article, I suggest that, while the Warren Court provided a needed tool to police, it failed to achieve its stated purpose of tying the practice to the Fourth Amendment reasonableness standard. First, the Court failed to adequately define an "investigatory stop," leading later courts to harden the definition, eliminating the Fourth Amendment from most on-the-street police-citizen encounters. Second, the facts in Terry failed to meet the reasonableness standard Chief Justice Warren purported to apply and which subsequently has been further weakened in later cases. Finally, the decision in Terry failed to strike a meaningful Fourth Amendment balance between …