CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--DUE PROCESS AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS--SELF-INCRIMINATION

Authors

F. William Hutchinson, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Abstract

In the course of evolving workable doctrines which give substance and meaning to the skeletal phrase "due process of law" as used in the Fourteenth Amendment to limit state action, the Supreme Court has frequently been called on to determine the scope of the several prohibitions and guarantees of the Bill of Rights of the federal Constitution. This general problem, and more particularly the application of the Fifth Amendment self-incrimination clause to state criminal proceedings, was again presented in a recent case and resulted in a sharp division of opinion within the Court.

Recommended Citation

F. W. Hutchinson, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--DUE PROCESS AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS--SELF-INCRIMINATION, 46 Mich. L. Rev. 371 (1948).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol46/iss3/5