Criminal Procedure

Nine Black teenagers were hastily tried and sentenced to death for allegedly raping two white women on an Alabama train, with a la...

Cleveland police forced their way into Dollree Mapp's home without a valid warrant, allegedly searching for a bombing suspect, and...

Clarence Earl Gideon, tried for breaking into a Florida poolroom, was denied a court-appointed lawyer because Florida appointed co...

Ernesto Miranda confessed to kidnapping and rape after two hours of police interrogation without being told of his rights. Chief J...

FBI agents attached an electronic listening device to the outside of a telephone booth used by bookmaker Charles Katz. The Court o...

Cleveland detective Martin McFadden observed men repeatedly pacing before a store, suspected an armed robbery, and frisked them, f...

Three consolidated cases produced five separate majority opinions. Justices Stewart and White found the penalty cruel and unusual ...

Georgia rewrote its capital statute after Furman, requiring separate trials for guilt and sentencing, statutory aggravating circum...

Christopher Simmons planned a murder at seventeen and was sentenced to death in Missouri. Justice Kennedy, for a 5-4 majority, hel...

Officers searched arrestees' phones incident to arrest, uncovering photos and contacts used as evidence. Chief Justice Roberts, fo...

The FBI obtained 127 days of Timothy Carpenter's cell site location information without a warrant under a stored communications st...

At James Batson's burglary trial in Louisville, the prosecutor used peremptory strikes to remove all four Black people from the ju...