The Warren Court as Defender of State and Federal Criminal Laws: A Reply to Those Who Believe that the Court is Oblivious to the Needs of Law Enforcement

In this article, Professor Arnold H. Loewy discusses the cases decided by the Warren Court in the 1965-1967 terms, terms whose decisions were viewed as detrimentally affecting the government’s ability to enforce criminal law. He discusses the cases by area of law (obscenity, action versus speech, self-incrimination and the right to counsel, unreasonable searches and seizures, cruel and unusual punishment, general due process, and prospectivity), pointing out the ways in which the decisions of the Warren Court actually upheld and promoted criminal enforcement.