Constitutional law and criminal justice

U.S. Constitution -- The concept of due process -- Fourth Amendment -- Fourth Ammendment issues -- Exclusionary rule -- Fifth Amendment issues -- Sixth Amendment issues -- Eight Amendment -- First Amendment -- Civil liability -- Writ of Habeas Corpus.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Balanced budget and/in the law -- PART I: Balanced budget as normative and economic standard -- 1. Balanced budget as a substantive legal rule -- 2. Economic perspectives on budget balance -- PART II: Balanced budget as constitutional rule -- 3. The German debt brake -- 4. The constitutional stakes of the Golden Rule -- PART III: Balanced budget and separation of powers -- 5. Balanced budget rule and representative democracy: A comparative analysis -- 6. Financial local autonomy: A tale of balanced budgets and vertical separation of financial power -- 7. Balanced budget rule and the transversality of agencies -- PART IV: Balanced budget, governance and fundamental rights -- 8. Rules of budgetary discipline and protection of rights -- 9. The organizational foundations of the IMF's doctrinal turn on fiscal policy after the Great Recession -- Balanced budgets - the vanity of a principle -- Index.

Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Author -- Chapter 1: Introduction to the U.S. Constitution -- Chapter 2: The Concept of Due Process -- Chapter 3: Fourth Amendment -- Chapter 4: Fourth Amendment Issues -- Chapter 5: Exclusionary Rule -- Chapter 6: Fifth Amendment Issues -- Chapter 7: Sixth Amendment Issues -- Chapter 8: Eighth Amendment -- Chapter 9: First Amendment -- Chapter 10: Civil Liability -- Chapter 11: Writ of Habeas Corpus -- References -- Glossary -- Appendix A: U.S. Constitution -- Appendix B: Search Warrants -- Appendix C: Grand Jury Indictment, August 2005 Term-At Alexandria, Virginia -- Back Cover

Introduction to the U.S. Constitution -- Introduction -- Original Constitution -- Bill of Rights -- Supreme Law of the Land -- Overview of the Judiciary -- Members of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2014 -- Capstone Case: -- United States volume Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995) -- Summary -- Questions in Review -- The Concept of Due Process -- Introduction -- Defining Due Process -- Early History of Due Process Clause -- States and the Fourteenth Amendment -- Police Power -- Vagueness -- Equal Protection of the Law -- Capstone Case: -- Medina volume California, 505 U.S. 437 (1992) -- Summary -- Questions in Review -- Fourth Amendment -- History -- Overview of the Amendment -- What Constitutes a Search? -- Probable Cause -- Warrants -- ARRESTS -- Capstone Case: -- Atwater volume City of Lago Vista, 149 L. Ed. 2d 549 (2001) -- Recent Court Decisions -- Summary -- Questions in Review -- Fourth Amendment Issues -- Introduction -- Searches without Warrants -- No Reasonable Expectation of Privacy Situations -- Arrests without Warrants -- Terry Stops -- Traffic Stops -- Scope of the Search -- Wiretaps -- Recent Court Decisions -- Summary -- Questions in Review -- Exclusionary Rule -- Introduction -- Exceptions to the Rule -- Noncriminal Trial Proceedings -- Situations Where the Rule Has Not Been Applied -- Exclusionary Rule and the Fifth Amendment -- Exclusionary Rule and the Sixth Amendment -- Recent Court Decisions -- Summary -- Questions in Review -- Fifth Amendment Issues -- Introduction -- Grand Jury -- Double Jeopardy -- Self-Incrimination -- Miranda Warning -- Exceptions to the Rule -- Failure to Advise Defendant of Other Suspected Crimes -- Fruit of the Poisonous Tree -- Involuntary Confessions -- Commenting on Defendant's Silence -- Recent Court Decision -- Summary -- Questions in Review -- Sixth Amendment Issues -- Introduction -- Speedy Trial -- Public Trial -- Impartial Jury -- Judicial District in Which the Crime Was Committed -- Informed of the Nature and Cause of the Accusation -- Right to Confront Witnesses -- Compulsory Process for Obtaining Witnesses -- Assistance of Counsel -- Guilty Pleas -- Capstone Case: -- United States volume Gonzalez-Lopez, 548 U.S. 140 (2006) -- Recent Court Decisions -- Summary -- Questions in Review -- The Eighth Amendment -- Introduction -- Death Penalty as Cruel and Unusual -- Noncapital Punishments -- Jail and Prison Conditions as Cruel and Unusual -- Court Sentences as Cruel and Unusual -- Bail -- Recent Court Decisions -- Summary -- Questions in Review -- The First Amendment -- Introduction -- Religious Issues -- Freedom of the Press -- Right to Assemble and Free Speech -- Petitions to the Government -- Right of Privacy -- Obscenity -- Students and the First Amendment -- Prisoners and the First Amendment -- Recent Court Decisions -- Summary -- Questions in Review -- Civil Liability -- Introduction -- Federal Civil Rights -- Liability of Federal Agents under 42 U.S.C.S. § 1983 -- Officer's Duty to Arrest -- Liability for Failure to Train Police Officers -- Immunity -- Prosecutors -- Capstone Case: -- Wilson volume Layne, 526 U.S. 603, 628 (1999) -- Recent Court Decisions -- Summary -- Questions in Review -- Writ of Habeas Corpus -- Introduction -- Boumediene volume Bush Case -- Procedure for Obtaining Writ -- Summary -- Questions in Review -- References -- Glossary -- Appendix A: U.S. Constitution -- Appendix B: Search warrants -- Appendix C: August 2005 Term – at Alexandria.