Surveys criminal law and procedure decisions from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for the period from September 1, 1974, through August 31, 1975. The survey covers a wide array of topics including ...

Research and comment has been devoted to three developments in Criminal Law and Procedure during this survey period. The articles that follow have been developed from cases involving pretrial publicity, prosecutorial ...

Voiceprints were admitted as evidence in a Florida criminal case against the defendant’s objections and helped to secure his conviction. As the reliability of voiceprints and spectrogram analysis continues to be proven ...

Responds to the exclusionary rule by proposing the need for an ombudsman in the Texas criminal justice system. This ombudsman would help individuals who have potentially suffered constitutional violations at the hands of ...

The Fourth Amendment requires that citizens be free from unreasonable searches or seizures. A recent case, Adams v. Williams, modifies the previous Terry v. Ohio standard and broadens what may be considered a reasonable ...

Briefly explores the historical development of the unanimous jury verdict and follows with a discussion of the Court’s decision in Apodaca v. Oregon. The court allowed a defendant’s criminal conviction based on a jury ...

Examines the issues that arise when there is evidence of flight in a criminal case. The author asserts that evidence of flight should not be admitted unless it can be shown that it is directly connected with the offense ...

The defense of entrapment has become an important defense in most of the criminal courts throughout the United States. In this article, the entrapment defense will be examined in respect to (1) its nature and definition, ...

This article discusses juvenile proceedings in Texas from the perspective of state attorneys. It addresses how the procedures in Lubbock County in ordinary juvenile cases should be changed so that the true facts are reflected ...

There is a universal agreement that the right of an accused “to be confronted by witnesses against him,” was not intended by its drafters to be absolute and complete, but was meant to be qualified by certain limitations ...