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- Title
ABSTRACTS OF RECENT CASES.
- Authors
Andrew, Carolyn Jaffe
- Abstract
This section presents abstracts of several criminal cases in the U.S. as of 1962. In People versus Rand, having waived trial by jury, defendant was convicted by the trial court of possession of marijuana. On appeal, defendant contended that the trial court erred in admitting an involuntary statement made by defendant at the place of his arrest. The District Court of Appeal reversed, holding that where defendant's admission that certain marijuana cigarettes were his was made after police officers threatened to take defendant and his wife to jail and possibly his children to juvenile, the statement was involuntary since it resulted from improper pressure. In another case, the Alvarez versus Reynolds, the plaintiff sued defendant Chicago police officers for false arrest and imprisonment, and judgment on a verdict of 10,000 dollars was entered in his favor. On appeal, defendants contended that since they had reasonable grounds to arrest plaintiff without a warrant, the arrest was legal and thus plaintiff could not maintain the action; and that even if the arrest was unlawful, defendants were not liable for damages due to unlawful detention of plaintiff after they turned him over to detectives.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CRIMINAL procedure; CRIMINAL justice system; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); FALSE arrest; CONFESSION (Law)
- Publication
Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology & Police Science, 1962, Vol 53, Issue 4, p489
- ISSN
0022-0205
- Publication type
Abstract