Presumed guilty : how the Supreme Court empowered the police and subverted civil rights / Erwin Chemerinsky.
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- ISBN: 9781631496516
- ISBN: 1631496514
- Physical Description: xiii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2021.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | "I Can't Breathe" Why courts can't stop police from using chokeholds -- Confronting the realities of race and policing -- The Supreme Court's essential role in enforcing the Constitution and controlling police -- The Court and policing before 1953 -- Why the Court ignored policing for much of American history -- Judicial silence on Constitutional protections and remedies before 1953 -- Finally enforcing constitutional protections and remedies -- "Each era finds an improvement in law for the benefit of mankind" applying the Bill of Rights to state and local police -- Both limiting and empowering police the Warren Court and the Fourth Amendment -- Miranda trying to solve the problem of coercion in police interrogations -- Protecting the innocent from wrongful convictions -- Safeguards against false eyewitness identifications -- Rights need remedies -- "Only the guilty have something to hide" undermining Fourth Amendment protections -- Hollowing out Miranda -- Refusing to check police eyewitness identification procedures -- Eroding remedies for police misconduct -- Police can stop anyone, at any time, and search them -- You don't really have the right to remain silent -- Ignoring the problem of false eyewitness identifications -- The vanishing remedies for police misconduct -- Overcoming the Supreme Court to reform policing -- The path to meaningful police reform. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Pease Public Library | 344.7305 CHEMERINSKY
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34598000878754 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |