Constitutional Law: Search and Seizure: Retrospective Application of Mapp v. Ohio

Constitutional Law-Search and Seizure-No Knock Entry Held Reasonable in Virginia When Exigencies Present

An Account of Mapp v. Ohio That Misses the Larger Exclusionary Rule Story

∗ E.E. Overton Distinguished Professor of Law and Alumni Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law. My thanks to Joshua Dressler for inviting me to review this book. 1 Hudson v. Michigan, 126 S. Ct. 2159 (2006). In Hudson, Justice Scalia’s opinion for the Court opined that one should not assume that there is a need to deter police misconduct by excluding unc...

Constitutional Law

Constitutional Law: Parole Status

In Rose v. Haskins,' the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reiterated the orthodox view that since a prisoner parole system is not constitutionally compelled, parole status is merely a "privilege" regulated by statute and not circumscribed by either the specific constitutional guarantees applicable to a criminal proceeding nor the traditional safeguards of procedural due process. However, ...

Constitutional Law: Increased Sentence