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The Fifth Amendment - A Comprehensive Approach (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,704
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The Fifth Amendment - A Comprehensive Approach (Hardcover): Alfredo Garcia

The Fifth Amendment - A Comprehensive Approach (Hardcover)

Alfredo Garcia

Series: Contributions in Legal Studies

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The Fifth Amendment is typically equated in both popular and legal discourse with the privilege against self-incrimination. This concept, Garcia reminds us, represents an incomplete view of the amendment. Often forgotten are the other two criminal clauses embodied in the text of the amendment: the right to a grand jury indictment for a serious crime and the freedom from double jeopardy for the same offense.

Garcia emphasizes the relationship among these criminal protections. Historical developments suggest that these seemingly disparate provisions have common threads: to provide constitutional protection for all trial-related rights. Underlying these constitutional provisions is the need to check the potential abuse of governmental power over the individual. Indeed, this theme permeated the historical backdrop to the Fifth Amendment. Finally, Garcia examples the practical ties of these clauses. The right to a grand jury indictment, the privilege against self-incrimination and the protection against double-jeopardy represent points in the continuum of the criminal justice process. An important resource for scholars and students involved with Amerian constitutional law, criminal justice, and criminology.

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Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin: United States
Series: Contributions in Legal Studies
Release date: October 2002
First published: October 2002
Authors: Alfredo Garcia
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29685-7
Categories: Books > Law > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Constitution, government & the state
LSN: 0-313-29685-5
Barcode: 9780313296857

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