From petty officers to powerful police -- Mid-nineteenth century state prohibition laws introduce limits on progressive era officers -- Acceptance of the exclusionary rule -- Redefining the evil of tortured confessions -- An awakened hatred of wiretapping -- Regulating searches in an era of police harassment and brutality -- Suspects permitted to consent to coercive and deceptive interrogation practices -- Retreat from rules designed to deter misconduct -- Limited progress toward accuracy and preventing brutality
Summary
A provocative history of criminal procedure, focusing on our perplexing overregulation of searches and seizures and underregulation of confessions and eyewitness accounts
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 02, 2018)
