Court Review: Volume 38, Issue 2 - Recent Criminal Decisions of the United States Supreme Court: The 2000-2001 Term

Authors

Charles H. Whitebread, University of Southern California Law School

Date of this Version

July 2001

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association, 38:2 (2001), pp. 41-45. Copyright © 2001 National Center for State Courts. Used by permission. Online at http://aja.ncsc.dni.us/htdocs/publications.htm.

Abstract

The United States Supreme Court’s 2000-2001 term will always be remembered for the Court’s role in deciding the outcome of the contemporaneous presidential election. Despite the notoriety of that decision, the rest of the term was relatively uneventful. Marked by recurrent split decisions, the Court addressed significant issues regarding an individual’s Fourth Amendment rights in the face of technological advance and law enforcement authority, the death penalty, and other topics of criminal procedure.