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Evolution over the Years
To a majority of individuals, arrest and detention within a law enforcement facility may be counted among the worst of life’s experiences; being coerced into confessing, at times under torture, is much more terrifying. However, citizens’ rights in the US ensure sound constitutional rules limit criminal law enforcement. Amazingly, a large number of these safeguards provided to citizens have only been put in place during the last few decades. The rest are entrenched in the nation’s colonial history.
From the start of the 60’s era, the US Supreme Court commenced efforts in the area of extensive expansion of defendant rights, way beyond the Constitutional Bill of Rights (BOR) developers’ grasp. For instance, though several portions of the BOR deal with law enforcement behavior, regulations pertaining to improper detention, warrants and searches (that English common law was unfamiliar with) were implemented during this period. The protection against self-implication was expanded, in addition to due process’s meaning. These are some of the many US Supreme Court measures aimed at creating safeguards for defendants, against prosecutorial and law enforcement excesses (Rights of the Accused, 1999).
The year 1961 witnessed the US Supreme Court slamming improper law enforcement policies in the Mapp. v. Ohio case. This...
Five years later, in the Miranda v. Arizona case, the court further asserted that even improperly-garnered evidence that proves valuable in establishing that the suspect did, indeed, perpetrate the offense, is inadmissible at court. The tenure of Earl Warren, the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice at the time, marked the golden age of defendant rights expansion. Core defendant rights have now been incorporated into the US constitution, including these rights’ extension from federal to local and state courts (Rights of the Accused, 1999).
The following questions may help express the concern: What consequences do these rights have? Are they linked to any disadvantages? Is there any justification for the widespread criticism of Earl Warren’s rulings expanding defendant rights? Have crime rates dropped owing to these constitutional limitations? This paper will improve insights into the issue by addressing the abovementioned questions.
The Effects of the evolution of the rights:
Searches and Seizures
Amendment IV denies federal officials the power to carry out general property seizures and searches. The meaning of the phrase ‘unreasonable’ seizures and…
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