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by Joseph D. Grano

Book Overview

Joseph Grano is the leading critic of the Warren Court's so-called revolution in American criminal procedure and the predominant critic of theMirandadecision. Here he presents a sophisticated analysis of both the relevant Supreme Court cases and the philosophical underpinnings of the concept involved. The author discusses a number of issues that bear on the normative judgments that must be made in cases of confession. Included are the various coercive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472101684
• ISBN13: 9780472101689
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Mindless Miranda

With the complete idiocy of lawyer's mentality we now offer Miranda rights to terrorists on the battlefield. But, Grano lays down his arguments that the imposition of Miranda rules by our Supreme Court offends truth and is very poor public policy. It is even worse on a battlefield in my view. For non lawyers much of what the courts actually do is very different from Law and Order and other television depictions. Yet, legal reasoning is a species of reasoning and hewing to a false philosophy will lead to results not desirable. Non lawyers need take no guff from legal mechanics who, after all, merely attend a trade school and pass a trade school's exit exam. There is a small cottage industry of books that rail against the failures of our criminal justice system and more are needed. Of Crimes and Rights by Fleming, Guilty, by Rothwax, The Failure of the Criminal Procedure Revolution by Bradley (Craig) are a few of the better ones. Grano's book convinces me in part because he refers to the morality of the search for truth...a search without meaning in a justice system no longer bound by morality or grounded in morality. As lawyers do in any system of law, they expand and self deal. Some very large percentage of lawyer work and income comes now from no fault divorce(as much as 30%). The failure of criminal law and it's "system" is addressed head on by Grano's book. We wind up in Indiana with counties refusing to prosecute murder cases because of the relatively new costs involved would bankrupt them. This is the success of the lawyers. Crime flourishs-society suffers-lawyers profit.