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 A Framework for Analyzing the Fourth Amendment 71
When Does a “Search” Occur? 72
Government Action, Not Private Action 72
Infringement on a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy 74
When Does a “Seizure” Occur? 81
Seizures of Property 81
Seizures of Persons 82
Justification 82
Probable Cause 83
Reasonable Suspicion 88
Administrative Justification 90
Summary 92
Key Terms 94
Key Cases 94
Further Exploration 94
Review Questions 95
Web Links and Exercises 95

Chapter 4 Searches and Arrests with Warrants 96

Introduction: Provisions of the Fourth Amendment 97
Components of Warrants 98
A Neutral and Detached Magistrate 98
A Showing of Probable Cause 101
Particularity 101
Arrests with Warrants 103
The Definition of Arrest 103
When Is an Arrest Warrant Required? 107
Executing an Arrest Warrant 109
Searches with Warrants 115
Executing a Search Warrant 115
Special Circumstances Involving Bodily Intrusions 120
Electronic Surveillance 121
Title III and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act 123
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act 124
Summary 125
Key Terms 125
Key Cases 126
Further Exploration 126
Chapter Review Questions 127
Web Links and Exercises 127

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Chapter 5 Searches and Arrests without Warrants 128
Introduction: Moving beyond the Warrant Requirement 129
Warrantless Searches 130
Searches Incident to Arrest 130
Searches Based on Exigent Circumstances 134
Automobile Searches 140
Plain View Searches 149
Warrantless Arrests 153
Arrests Based on Exigent Circumstances 153
Arrests in Public Places 153
Summary 156
Key Terms 157
Key Cases 158
Further Exploration 158
Review Questions 159
Web Links and Exercises 159

Chapter 6 Actions Based on Reasonable Suspicion 160

Introduction: Loosening the Fourth Amendment’s Restraints 161
Terry v. Ohio: The facts 162
Stop and Frisk: Two Separate Acts 163
The Stop 163
Definition of a Stop 163
Sources of Information 166
Duration of a Stop 167
The Meaning of “Free to Leave” 168
Can Effects Be Seized? 168
Stops and Seizures under Terry: A Summary 169
The Frisk 170
Permissible Grounds for a Frisk 170
Scope of a Frisk 171
Frisks under Terry: A Summary 172
The Evolution of Stop-and-Frisk Law 174
Vehicle Stops and Weapons Searches of Automobiles 174
Protective Sweeps of Residences 174
Plain Touch and Feel 175
Stops for Loitering 176
Checks for Identification 177
Drug Courier Profiling 178
Landmark Cases Regarding Drug Courier Profiling 180
Investigative Detentions 184
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 Summary 185
Key Terms 186
Key Cases 186
Further Exploration 187
Review Questions 188
Web Links and Exercises 189

Chapter 7 A
 ctions Based on Administrative Justification and
Consent 190
Introduction: Casting Off the Fourth Amendment’s Restraints 191
Actions Based on Administrative Justification 192
Inventories 192
Inspections 195
Checkpoints 199
School Discipline 203
“Searches” of Government Employees’ Offices 205
Drug and Alcohol Testing 206
Probation and Parole Supervision 208
Consent Searches 210
Voluntariness 210
Scope Limitations 211
Third-Party Consent 212
“Knock and Talk” 213
Summary 215
Key Terms 217
Key Cases 217
Further Exploration 217
Review Questions 219
Web Links and Exercises 219

P a r t 3 Interrogations, Confessions, and Identification

Procedures
Chapter 8 Interrogations and Confessions 220
Introduction: Getting Suspects to Talk 221
Interrogations and Confessions 222
Various Approaches to Confession Law 222
The Due Process Voluntariness Approach 222
Police Conduct 223
Characteristics of the Accused 223
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 The Sixth Amendment Approach 224
Deliberate Elicitation 224
Formal Criminal Proceedings 225
Waiver of the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel (Confessions) 227
The Fifth Amendment Approach 227
The Four Components of the Self-Incrimination Clause 227
Miranda 228
Custody 230
Interrogation 233
Other Miranda Issues 234
Challenging Miranda 241
Miranda and Section 1983 242
The Exclusionary Rule and Confession Analysis 242
Confessions and Standing 242
Confessions and Impeachment 243
Confessions and “Fruit of the Poisonous Tree” 243
The Importance of Documenting a Confession 244
Summary 246
Key Terms 247
Key Cases 247
Further Exploration 248
Review Questions 249
Web Links and Exercises 249

Chapter 9 Identification Procedures and the Role of Witnesses 250

Introduction: Dealing with Witnesses to Crimes 251
Constitutional Challenges to Identification Procedures 252
Right to Counsel 252
Due Process 253
Self-Incrimination 253
The Fourth Amendment 254
Summary: Constitutional Challenges to Witness Identification Procedures 254
Pretrial Identification Techniques 254
Lineups 255
Showups 256
Photographic Identifications 258
Identification Procedures: Flaws and Fixes 261
Double-Blind Lineups 263
Virtual Officer Lineups 264
Identification During Trial 264
Refreshing a Witness’s Memory 265
Witness Credibility 266
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 The Exclusionary Rule and Identifications 270
Tainted Identifications 270
Identifications Resulting from Illegal Searches and Seizures 271
Summary 272
Key Terms 273
Key Cases 273
Further Exploration 273
Review Questions 275
Web Links and Exercises 275

P a r t 4 The Beginnings of Formal Proceedings

Chapter 10 The Pretrial Process 276
Introduction: The Road to Trial 277
The Initial Appearance 278
The Probable Cause Hearing 278
Procedural Issues Surrounding the Hearing 279
Timing of the Hearing 279
Pretrial Release 280
The Pretrial Release Hearing 281
The Pretrial Release Decision 282
Criteria for Release 285
Treatment of Pretrial Detainees 287
The Preliminary Hearing 288
The Probable Cause Requirement 289
Procedural Issues at Preliminary Hearings 289
The Arraignment 290
Summary of Pretrial Proceedings 291
Discovery 291
Discovery by the Prosecution 293
Discovery by the Defense 295
Nonreciprocal Discovery 296
Summary 303
Key Terms 305
Key Cases 305
Further Exploration 305
Review Questions 306
Web Links and Exercises 307

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Chapter 11 Prosecutors, Grand Juries, and Defense Attorneys 308
Introduction: Bringing Charges and Mounting a Defense 310
The Prosecutor 310
The Charging Decision 310
Restrictions on Bringing Charges 315
Dealing with Overzealous Prosecutors 319
Joinder 320
The Grand Jury 321
How a Grand Jury Is Constructed 322
Secrecy of Grand Jury Proceedings 327
Rights of Witnesses Testifying before Grand Juries 328
Investigative Powers of the Grand Jury 329
Challenging a Grand Jury Indictment 330
The Defense Attorney 331
The Right to Counsel in a Criminal Prosecution 332
The Right to Counsel at Other Stages of the Criminal Process 333
Waiver of the Right to Counsel 334
Indigent versus Nonindigent Defendants’ Right to Counsel of Their Choice 336
Effective Assistance of Counsel 336
Summary 339
Key Terms 341
Key Cases 341
Further Exploration 342
Review Questions 342
Web Links and Exercises 343

Chapter 12 Plea Bargaining and Guilty Pleas 344

Introduction: Methods of Avoiding Trial 345
Plea Bargaining 347
The History and Rise of Plea Bargaining 348
Arguments in Support of Plea Bargaining 349
Criticisms of Plea Bargaining 350
Attempts to Restrict Plea Bargaining 351
The Supreme Court’s View on Plea Bargaining 353
The Plea-Bargaining Process 353
Constitutional Rights during Plea Bargaining 353
Acceptable Inducements by the Prosecution 354
Questionable Inducements 356
Statutory and Judicial Inducements 357
Effects of Plea Bargaining 360
Effects on the Court 360
Effects on the Prosecutor 361
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 Effects on the Defendant 362
Effects on the Victim 364
Elements of a Valid Guilty Plea 364
Intelligence 365
Voluntariness 367
Factual Basis 367
Contesting a Guilty Plea 369
Withdrawing a Guilty Plea 369
Appealing a Guilty Plea 370
Summary 370
Key Terms 371
Key Cases 372
Further Exploration 372
Review Questions 373
Web Links and Exercises 373

P a r t 5 Trial, Conviction, and Beyond

Chapter 13 Rights at Trial 374
Introduction: Ensuring an Expeditious and Fair Trial 375
The Right to a Speedy Trial 376
When the Right to a Speedy Trial Applies 376
When the Right to a Speedy Trial Is Violated 378
Consequences of Violating the Right to a Speedy Trial 381
The Right to an Impartial Judge 381
Methods of Removing a Judge Who Is Not Impartial 382
The Right to an Impartial Jury 383
When the Right to a Jury Trial Applies 384
Jury Size and Voting Requirements 385
Waiving the Right to a Jury Trial 386
Selection of Potential Jurors 388
The Voir Dire Process 391
When Impartial Jurors Cannot Be Found 398
When Judges Preempt Juries 399
Summary 399
Key Terms 400
Key Cases 400
Further Exploration 401
Review Questions 402
Web Links and Exercises 403

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Chapter 14 More Rights at Trial 404
Introduction: More Protections for the Accused 405
The Right to a Public Trial 406
When the Right May Not Apply 406
The First Amendment and Public Trials 407
The Right to Confrontation 409
The Defendant’s Right to Be Present 410
The Defendant’s Right to Live Testimony 414
The Defendant’s Right to Challenge Witness Testimony 418
The Right to Compulsory Process 422
The Right to Present Evidence 424
The Right to Double-Jeopardy Protection 425
When Double-Jeopardy Protection Applies 426
When Double-Jeopardy Protection Does Not Apply 427
Double Jeopardy and Sentencing 429
The Entrapment Defense 430
Summary 432
Key Terms 433
Key Cases 433
Further Exploration 434
Review Questions 435
Web Links and Exercises 435

Chapter 15 Sentencing, Appeals, and Habeas Corpus 436

Introduction: Closing the Door on the Criminal Process 438
Sentencing 438
Types of Prison Sentences 438
Determining the Appropriate Sentence 440
Constitutional Rights during Sentencing 443
Appeals 444
Types and Effects of Appeals 444
The Appellate Process 445
Timing of Defense Appeals 450
Appeals by Parties other than the Defense 452
Reasons for Denying an Appeal 453
Retroactivity of Appellate Decisions 455
Habeas Corpus 456
Restrictions on the Right to Habeas Corpus 460
When a Habeas Corpus Proceeding Resembles a Trial 463
The Right to Counsel in the Habeas Corpus Context 464

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 Retroactivity in the Habeas Corpus Context 464
The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) of
1996 465
Summary 468
Key Terms 470
Key Cases 470
Further Exploration 470
Review Questions 472
Web Links and Exercises 473

Glossary 474
Photo Credits 483
Case Index 484
Subject Index 492

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 Preface

I decided to write this book, Criminal Procedure: From First Contact to Appeal, after I had
taught criminal procedure for several years. During each course, my students typically
asked a litany of “what if ” questions and became curious about the rules of criminal proce-
dure after the police arrest and book a suspect. Students also expressed frustration with the
fact that many of the leading books on criminal procedure presupposed a certain degree
of familiarity with the criminal process, including an understanding of basic terminology.
Students came to loathe these books’ excessive use of legalese and obtuse descriptions of
criminal procedure topics that had no real-life applications.
In addition, students frequently pointed out, as did I, that there are often signifi-
cant differences between what the courts require and what happens in the real world
of criminal justice. For instance, consider the definition of a seizure for the purposes
of the Fourth Amendment. A seizure occurs when a reasonable person would believe
he or she is not free to leave. Yet many times, students find this definition wanting
and ask, “If a person is not seized according to this definition, is he or she really free
to leave?” This question highlights the differences between what this book calls theory
and reality. It and countless other similar questions prompted me to write a criminal
procedure book of my own, one that takes a comprehensive yet basic approach to
criminal procedure and that connects the material to the real world with examples and
exercises.
By way of preview, then, this book presents an introduction to criminal procedure,
from the point at which an individual first comes into contact with the police all the way
through the appeals process. Approximately half of the book is devoted to traditional
criminal procedure topics—notably, search-and-seizure as well as interrogation and iden-
tification procedures. The remainder of the book moves beyond these topics and discusses
the pretrial process; the roles of defense attorneys, prosecutors, and grand juries; plea
bargaining and guilty pleas; rights of criminal defendants at trial; and appeals and habeas
corpus.

▶ Presentation
The material in Criminal Procedure is covered, in large part, by focusing on the constitu-
tional rights of criminal defendants, as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court. To this end,
many leading Supreme Court decisions are discussed; however, lengthy excerpts from
the actual decisions have been reduced to relevant remarks in order to avoid distracting
from the many important concepts introduced. In order to maintain a real-world focus,
the book also incorporates many actual legal documents and excerpts from official policy
manuals of police departments and other criminal justice agencies around the United
States.
Criminal procedure should not be confused with evidence procedure or trial ­procedure.
Evidence procedure concerns the rules for presenting evidence to prove guilt (or the
lack thereof); thus, evidence courses cover such topics as types of evidence, rules for
presenting witness testimony, hearsay, and the like. This book touches on evidence only
­tangentially—by discussing witness questioning and the police actions used to secure evi-
dence through search and seizure. But the focus on evidence does not move beyond these

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two issues. Likewise, this book is not about trial procedure. That is, it does not address
the nuances of criminal trials, including the order of events at trial, what objections can
be raised, instructions to the jury, and so on. Trial procedure is a topic typically covered
in law school.
Instead, this book presents a comprehensive introduction to criminal procedure,
thoroughly presenting basic legal concepts and issues in a conversational written style
and tone. Given this content coverage and the frequent use of examples from actual
legal documents and policy guides, readers who are pursuing careers in criminal justice
will find this book especially useful. Individuals who are already employed in criminal
justice will find the book useful as well. Moreover, because the book constitutes more
than a general overview of criminal procedure, it should prove beneficial to aspiring law
students. But, it should not be over the heads of students with little or no background in
criminal justice.

▶ Features
Criminal Procedure has a number of pedagogical features that will benefit readers. Each
chapter begins with learning objectives and an outline of the topics covered, giving readers
an at-a-glance preview of the content. Lists of key terms and key cases are also included at
the end of each chapter. Each term is defined in a glossary appearing at the end of the book,
and each key case is then highlighted in the margins near where it is discussed in the chapter
text. Each chapter ends with a set of Review Questions, which cover the basic content and
also ask readers to correlate what they have learned. Summaries are also provided at the end
of the chapter with each heading aligning with learning objectives. Other key features are
as follows:

• Decision-Making Exercises are scattered throughout each chapter. Each exercise places
the reader in the position of judge, asking him or her to decide a case based on the facts
presented. The answers to the exercises are available to instructors. They explain what
was decided in the actual case on which a given exercise was based or what likely would
be decided given precedent in the area.
• The book makes extensive use of actual legal forms, calls attention to important rules
(such as those spelled out in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure), and reprints
police department policy manual excerpts. Presented as figures, these materials show
how professionals working in the field of criminal justice deal with the concepts and
issues covered throughout the book.
• Web links and Exercises. Each chapter concludes with a few Web links and exercises
designed to elaborate on and reinforce key issues and points raised in the chapter.
• Further Exploration. Each chapter also concludes with an examination of various con-
troversial and unsettled issues in criminal procedure, some that have barely even been
conceived of at this point. The objective is to take readers beyond the text and have
them entertain ideas that are likely to come up in the not-too-distant future.

In short, this book is intended to move beyond the basic introductory approach to
criminal procedure that many of the competing books have taken but not to a level that
presupposes any knowledge about the criminal process. Many competing texts focus over-
whelmingly on search-and-seizure and on interrogation and confession procedures. This
book covers these topics as well, and in great detail, but it also covers many more topics.
This is because criminal procedure consists of much more than interactions between the
police and criminal suspects.

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▶ New to the Fifth Edition
The fifth edition has been revised in several ways:

• All chapters have been extensively revised and rewritten for clarity and simplicity.
• The art program has been improved throughout and now includes shorter, clearer fig-
ures as well as key case timelines.
• All the latest Supreme Court decisions are included, through the 2012–2013 term.
• New “Further Exploration” exercises appear at the end of each chapter. These can be
used to stimulate discussions and serve as the basis for additional assignments/papers.
• Case law presentation has been improved, with more discussion of case facts/details as
appropriate.
• Full discussion of the facts from Terry v. Ohio now appears in Chapter 6, along with a
new section on sources giving rise to reasonable suspicion.
• In Chapter 8, the discussion of confessions and interrogations has been completely
revamped and improved.
• A reorganized and expanded section on effective assistance of counsel appears in
­Chapter 11 (in light of recent Supreme Court decisions).
• A new section on venue changes has been added to Chapter 13.

▶ Content
Criminal Procedure continues to be divided into five parts: (1) Introduction; (2) Search and
Seizure; (3) Interrogations, Confessions, and Identification Procedures; (4) The Beginnings
of Formal Proceedings; and (5) Trial, Conviction, and Beyond. The latter two topics are
rarely covered in conventional criminal procedure books, particularly at the level of detail
found in this text. In contrast, the traditional approach to criminal procedure rarely moves
beyond the material covered in the first three parts of this text.
Part 1 contains two chapters. Chapter 1 is introductory and provides readers with
the information necessary to begin studying criminal procedure. In particular, it defines
criminal procedure; highlights the due process/crime control dilemma, which is at the
heart of all controversies in criminal procedure; discusses the relationship among the
courts, including a brief section on how to do legal research; and introduces several issues
and trends in criminal procedure. Chapter 1 ends with a detailed overview of the text.
­Chapter 2 begins by discussing the exclusionary rule, then it considers criminal, civil, and
nonjudicial remedies. Remedies are presented early in the text so readers will become
aware of how people’s rights can be enforced in the U.S. courts.
Part 2 covers standard search-and-seizure topics. Chapter 3 provides a framework for
studying the Fourth Amendment; specifically, it defines Fourth Amendment terminology
and specifies when searches and seizures occur. This chapter also covers the doctrine of
justification, focusing on the definitions of probable cause, reasonable suspicion, and what
this book calls administrative justification. Chapters 4 and 5 go on to cover searches and
seizures with warrants and without warrants, respectively. Chapter 6 covers actions based on
reasonable suspicion, including stops and frisks and investigative detentions, and ­Chapter 7
covers actions based on administrative justification and consent, including inventories,
inspections, checkpoints, school and office searches, drug and alcohol testing, and the like.
Part 3 covers interrogations, confessions, and identification procedures. To this end,
Chapter 8 focuses heavily on the Fifth Amendment’s self-incrimination clause and then sum-
marizes the proper procedures for conducting interrogations and obtaining valid confessions.
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and confessions. Chapter 9 discusses identification procedures, including the guidelines for
proper pretrial identifications, and also introduces identification procedures used during
trial, including the proper questioning of witnesses to assist in valid in-court identifications.
The information in Part 4 is pretrial in nature. Chapter 10 begins by discussing book-
ing, the initial appearance, the probable cause hearing, pretrial release, the preliminary
hearing, and the arraignment. This chapter also introduces the rules surrounding discov-
ery. While discovery can occur well into a trial, most often discovery is pretrial in nature;
thus, it is appropriate to discuss discovery in this context. Chapter 11 covers prosecutors,
grand juries, and defense attorneys, including the constitutional guidelines by which each
must abide. Of course, the actions of prosecutors, defense attorneys, and even grand juries
matter outside the pretrial context, but readers should be familiar with these important
actors before moving into the adjudication section. Finally, Chapter 12 covers plea bargain-
ing and guilty pleas. Again, both can occur well into a trial, but most plea bargains and
guilty pleas are undertaken in an effort to avoid trial.
Part 5 is titled “Trial, Conviction, and Beyond.” Chapter 13, the first of two chapters
about the defendant’s rights at trial, examines the right to a speedy trial and the right to
an impartial judge and jury. Chapter 14 continues the focus on rights at trial, discussing
openness, confrontation, compulsory process, double jeopardy, and entrapment. Lastly,
Chapter 15 covers important topics in sentencing as well as appeals and habeas corpus.
As noted earlier, most texts on criminal procedure give only limited coverage to the
topics in Parts 4 and 5, so readers should benefit by the material presented. Once again, the
purpose of this book is to present a comprehensive look at criminal procedure, demonstrat-
ing that the Constitution affects much more than the actions of law enforcement personnel.

▶ Supplements
Several supplements are available for this book. A test bank for the fifth edition is available.
Accompanying the test bank are answers to the book’s decision-making exercises. These are
available for instructors. The fifth edition is also accompanied by PowerPoint slides to assist
instructors with the classroom presentations.

▶ Acknowledgments
I would like to thank those individuals who reviewed the fifth edition: Beth Bjerregaard,
University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James Blair, South Texas Community College;
Amy Carrino, KCTCS Gateway Community and Technical College, Covington; Brett
Curry, Georgia Southern University; Brian Donnelly, Raritan Valley Community College;
Michelle Estis-Sumerel, Itawamba Community College, Tupelo; Soraya Kawucha, Univer-
sity of North Texas; Colin Lau, Chaminade University of Honolulu; Thomas Lawrence,
TriCounty Technical College; Mike Martinez, University of South Dakota; Greg Plumb,
Park University; Leslie Ridge, Waynesburg University; Louis Roy, West Virginia Univer-
sity at Parkersburg; Kurt Siedschlaw, University of Nebraska; and Margaret Swearingen,
Santa Rosa Community College.
I would also like to thank the reviewers of the first four editions: Scott Belshaw,
­University of North Texas; Robert Boyer, Luzerne County Community College; Jack E.
Call, Radford University; Brett Curry, Georgia Southern University; Kevin Daugherty,
Albuquerque TVI Community College; Charles Dreveskracht, Northeastern State Univer-
sity; Russell A. Hunt, Dodge City Community College; Mark Jones, Community College of
Philadelphia; David Kramer, Bergen Community College; Patrick Massaro, Butler County
Community College; Donna Nicholson, Manchester Community College; Kathleen
­Nicolaides, University of North Carolina–Charlotte; Caryl Anne Poteete, Southern ­Illinois
University at Carbondale; Larry Salinger, Arkansas State University; Philip E. Secret,

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University of Nebraska at Omaha; Constance St. Germain-Driscoll, American Public Uni-
versity System; and Carol Lynn Tebben, University of Wisconsin–Parkside.
Special thanks go to the following organizations (including their staff and others who
responded to my many queries): San Bernardino, California, Police Department; Portland
Police Bureau, Strategic Services Division; Abilene, Texas, Police Department; Alameda
County (California) District Attorney’s Office; Claremont, California, Police Department;
Gallatin, Tennessee, Police Department; Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Police Department; Sage
Publications; and the Texas Municipal Court Education Center.
I would also like to thank Craig Hemmens, Washington State University, for fielding
many of my questions. My students throughout the years deserve special thanks as well.
Their “what if ” questions and frustration with the traditional, heavy-on-case-law approach
to teaching criminal procedure contributed in no small part to this, the fifth edition.
And thanks, as always, to the wonderful people at Pearson and everyone else involved in
bringing the book to press, including Gary Bauer, Tiffany Bitzel, Steve Robb, and project
manager Revathi Viswanathan at PreMediaGlobal. I am also indebted to development
editor extraordinaire, Evan Voboril. His attention to detail brought more improvements to
this text than I could imagine. Finally, special thanks go to my family, especially my wife,
Sabrina, for her unending support.

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 About the Author

John L. Worrall is Professor and Criminology Program Head at the University of Texas at
Dallas. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Washington State University in 1999.
His areas of interest and expertise include policing, courts, and crime control policy, but
he has also published research on correctional matters, legal issues, and a range of other
criminal justice/criminology topics. His research has focused primarily on identifying suc-
cessful programs, policies, and interventions aimed at preventing and controlling crime. In
this vein, he has also authored a number of best-selling criminal justice books, including
the popular Crime Control in America: What Works? (3rd edition, Pearson, forthcoming).
He also currently serves as editor of the journal Police Quarterly.

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1 Introduction to
Criminal Procedure
Learning Objectives
When you complete this chapter, you should be able to:
❶ Summarize the constitutional basis for criminal procedure.
❷ Explain the importance of precedent.
❸ Compare the theory of criminal procedure to the reality.
❹ Describe how the interests of public order (crime control) and
individual rights (due process) influence criminal justice and how
criminal procedure balances these two interests.
❺ Outline the structure of the court system, and describe the
responsibilities and jurisdictions of each level.

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❻ Summarize important issues and trends in criminal procedure.
❼ Provide an overview of the process of criminal justice.

Outline
Introduction: What Is Criminal Quantity over Quality 15
Procedure? 4 Insistence on Informality 15
Sources of Rights in Criminal Faith in the Police 15
Procedure 4
Finding Court Cases and
The U.S. Constitution 4 Tracing Their Progress 16
Court Decisions 4 Finding Cases 19
Statutes 5 Tracing the Progress of a
State Constitutions 5 Criminal Case 20
Rights That are Relevant to How Cases Reach the
Criminal Procedure 5 Supreme Court 22
The Fourth Amendment 6 Important Issues and Trends in
The Fifth Amendment 6 Criminal Procedure 24

The Sixth Amendment 6 Bright-Line Decisions

versus Case-by-Case
The Eighth Amendment 7 Adjudication 24
The Fourteenth Amendment 7 Subjectivity versus
The Incorporation Objectivity 25
Controversy 8 Increased Faith in the
Significance of the Police 26
Debate 8 Judicial Restraint 27
Views on Incorporation 8 Personal Privacy 28
Outcome of the Debate 9 Criminal Procedure and the
The Importance of Precedent 10 War on Terror 29
Stare Decisis 10 Criminal Procedure and
Distinguishing Cases 10 Technology 30

Theory Versus Reality 11 The Criminal Process: An

Overview 31
Competing Concerns in
Criminal Procedure 13 Pretrial 32

The Due Process Adjudication 33

Perspective 13 Beyond Conviction 33
The Obstacle Course 14 Summary 34
Quality over Quantity 14 Key Terms 36
Insistence on Formality 14 Key Cases 36
Faith in the Courts 14 Further Exploration 36
The Crime Control Review Questions 37
Perspective 14 Web Links and Exercises 37
The Assembly Line 15

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Introduction: What Is Criminal Procedure?
American criminal procedure consists of a vast set of rules and guidelines that determine how
suspected and accused criminals are to be handled and processed by the justice system. A significant
part of this system governs the relationship between the police and the people suspected of criminal
activity. Criminal procedure provides law enforcement officials with the guidance necessary to preserve
the rights of individuals who are seized, searched, arrested, and otherwise inconvenienced by those
officials. It also provides other justice system professionals—such as judges, prosecutors, and defense
attorneys—with the necessary guidance to preserve the rights of individuals accused of ­criminal
­activity. Criminal procedure begins when the police first contact a suspect and ends well after his
or her conviction.
At least three important themes run throughout criminal procedure. First, there is a concern with the
constitutional rights of accused persons. The bulk of criminal procedure is governed by what the U.S.
Constitution says—as it is interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court. Second, procedure is closely linked to
history, because it is guided by precedent, or past decisions by the courts. In making decisions, courts
look to how sensitive legal issues have been approached in the past, and will often follow the previous
decisions made in similar cases. A third recurring theme is the collision between the world of the courts
and the world of law enforcement. The requirements of the courts do not always harmonize with the
needs of law enforcement, and court decisions may not always be as relevant in the real world as might
be expected.

▶ Sources of Rights in Criminal Procedure

The U.S. Constitution is the most important source of rights applying to criminal proce-
dure. In addition to the Constitution, important sources of rights include court decisions,
statutes, and state constitutions.
In addition, criminal procedure cannot be understood without attention to the inter-
play between federal and states’ rights. The two-tiered system of government in the United
States creates a unique relationship between the federal and state levels.

The U.S. Constitution

The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution states:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice,
insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare,
and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish
this Constitution for the United States of America.

Of particular relevance to criminal procedure are the terms justice and liberty. The
Constitution helps ensure justice and liberty by defining the various roles of government
and protecting the rights of people within the nation’s borders. Throughout the nation’s
history, the courts have devoted a great amount of energy to interpreting the Constitution
and specifying what rights are important and when they apply.

Court Decisions
Whenever a court makes a decision interpreting the Constitution, it effectively
makes an announcement concerning people’s rights. For example, the Fourth
Amendment states that unreasonable searches and seizures are impermissible. The
term unreasonable is not self-explanatory, however. In Wilson v. Layne, 526 U.S. 603
(1999), the Court decided that it is unreasonable for the police to bring reporters

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interests, but only with facts. We should not ask: ‘Will it be popular?’
‘Will it seem orthodox?’ but simply, ‘Is it true?’ ”

And in just as much as the theory of moral duties deserves the name
of a science, the exponents of that science would gain, rather than
lose, by the adoption of the same maxim. “Religion,” in the traditional
sense of the word, needs to be purged from an enormous
[160]percentage of spurious elements, before its ministers can be
acquitted from the guilt of tempting their disciples to associate the
ideas of Ethics and Imposture, and thus reject the basis of morality
together with the basis of an Asiatic myth. “Truth is the beginning of
Wisdom,” “Justice is Truth,” “Mendacity is the Mother of Discord,”
would be fit mottoes for the ethical Sunday-schools of the Future.
“What is Truth?” asks Pilate; yet even in religious controversies the
fury of sectarian strife could be obviated if we would truthfully admit
the uselessness of disputes about the unknowable mysteries of
supernatural problems. Still, we cannot hope to eradicate the roots of
discord unless we resolve with equal frankness to reject the
interference of Supernaturalism with the knowable problems of
secular science. Evident Truth can dispense with the indorsement of
miracle-mongers, and “evident Untruth,” in the words of Ulrich
Hutten, “should be exposed whether its teachers come in the name
of God or of the devil.”

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CHAPTER XIII.
 HUMANITY.

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A.—LESSONS OF INSTINCT.

The wanton disposition of young children, like the mischievousness

of our next relatives, the tree climbing half-men of the tropical
forests, has often been mistaken for natural malevolence, but is
rather due to an excess of misdirected vital energy. In seeking a vent
for the exuberance of that energy, a frolicsome [161]child, like a
playful monkey, is apt to become destructive, merely because
destruction is easier than construction. Mischievousness, in the
sense of cruelty and gratuitous malice, is, however, by no means a
prominent character-trait of monkeys or normal boys. The most
wayward of all known species of fourhanders are undoubtedly the
African baboons; yet a long study of their natural disposition, both in
freedom and captivity, has convinced me that even their fits of
passionate wrath stop short of actual cruelty, and are, in fact, almost
invariably intended as a protest against acts of injustice or violence.
At Sidi Ramath, Algiers, I saw a number of babuinos hasten to the
aid of a shrieking child, who had hurt his hand in the gear of an ox-
cart, and whose cries they evidently attributed to the brutality of his
companions. The sight of a wounded fellow-creature, a crippled rat,
a mangled bird, a dying rabbit, never fails to throw my pet Chacma-
baboon into a paroxysm of shrieking excitement, and within reach of
her chain she will act upon the impulse of compassion by trying to
redress the injuries of her playmates or rescuing the victim of a dog-
fight. The fierce mandril, with resources of self-defense that would
defy the attack of a panther, is nevertheless so averse to an
aggressive exertion of that strength that menagerie-keepers can
trust him to spare, if not protect, the smallest species of his distant
relatives, as well as such petulant fellow-captives as young dogs and
raccoons. The hunters of the Orinoco Valley can attract fourhanders
of all species by imitating the peculiar long-drawn wail of a young
[162]capuchin-monkey. At the sound of that cry spider-monkeys,
stentors, and tamarins will hasten up from all parts of the forest,
attracted less by curiosity than the evident desire to succor a
distressed fellow-creature.

That instinct of compassion still manifests itself in the disposition of

children and primitive nations. I have seen youngsters of five or six
years gasp in anguish at sight of a dying dog, or turn with horror from
the bloody scenes of a butcher-shop. Sir Henry Stamford describes
the frantic excitement of a Hindoo village at the discovery of a
number of buckshot-riddled hanuman apes; and that sympathy is not
limited to the nearest relatives of the human species, for in the
suburbs of Benares the gardener of a British resident was pursued
with howls and execrations for having killed a young Roussette—
some sort of frugivorous bat. The mob repeatedly cornered the
malefactor, and with shrieks of indignation shook the mangled
creature before his face. The traveler Busbequius mentions a riot in
a Turkish hamlet where a Christian boy came near being mobbed for
“gagging a long-billed fowl.”

“Man’s inhumanity to man,” as practiced by their foreign visitors,

inspired the South Sea Islanders with a nameless horror. A sailor of
the British ship Endeavor having been sentenced to be punished for
some act of rudeness toward the natives of the Society Islands, the
natives themselves interceded with loud cries for mercy, and
seemed, indeed, to settle their own quarrels by arbitration, or, at
worst, boy-fashion, by wrestling and pummeling each other, and
[163]then shaking hands again. A similar scene was witnessed in
Prince Baryatinski’s camp in the eastern Caucasus, where a poor
mountaineer offered to renounce his claim to a number of stolen
sheep, rather than see the thief subjected to the barbarous penalties
of a Russian court-martial. In Mandingo Land Mungo Park was
mistaken for a Portuguese slave-trader, nevertheless the pity of his
destitute condition gradually overcame the hostility of the natives; so
much, indeed, that they volunteered to relieve his wants by joint
contributions from their own rather scanty store of comestibles. Even
among the bigoted peasants of northern Italy the butcheries of the
Holy Inquisition at first provoked a fierce insurrection in favor of the
condemned heretics. In India and Siam some two hundred million of
our fellow-men are so unable to overcome their horror of blood-shed
that in time of famine they have frequently preferred to starve to
death rather than satisfy their hunger by the slaughter of a fellow-
creature.

A diet of flesh food has, indeed, a decided influence in developing

those truculent propensities which our moralists have often been
misled to ascribe to the promptings of a normal instinct. In our North
American Indians, for instance, a nearly exclusively carnivorous diet
has engendered all the propensities of a carnivorous beast; but the
next relatives of those sanguinary nomads, the agricultural Indios of
Mexico and Central America, are about as mild-natured as their
Hindostan fellow-vegetarians, while Science and tradition agree in
contrasting the customs of flesh-eating hunters and herders with the
[164]frugal habits of our earliest ancestors. The primitive instincts of
the human soul are clearly averse to cruelty.

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B.—REWARDS OF CONFORMITY.

The apologists of Supernaturalism have frequently insisted on the

distinction between naturally advantageous and naturally thankless
virtues. Under the former head they would, for instance, include
Temperance and Perseverance; under the latter, charity and the love
of enemies—thus arguing for the necessity of assuming an other-
worldly chance of recompense for the unselfish merits of a true saint.

But a humane disposition is, on the whole, quite natural enough to

dispense with the promise of preternatural rewards. Good-will begets
good-will; benevolence is the basis of friendship, while malice begets
ill-will, and is apt to betray its claws in spite of the soft-gloved
disguise of polite formalities.

A humane master is better served than a merciless despot; his

dependants identify his interests with their own; his family, his
tenants, his very cattle, thrive as in an atmosphere of sunshine, while
habitual unkindness blights every blessing and cancels all merits.
Mental ability seems rather to aggravate the odium of a cruel
disposition, while, on the other hand, we are almost ashamed to
notice the mental or physical shortcomings of a kind-hearted man.
Intellectual attainments have never reconciled the world to the
demerits of a spiteful despot. Tiberius, the most abhorred of all the
imperial monsters of tyrant-ridden Rome, was, next to Julian,
[165]mentally perhaps the most gifted of Cæsar’s successors. Philip
the Second was the most astute, as well as the most powerful,
sovereign of his century, but his cold-blooded inhumanity prevented
him from ever becoming a popular hero. Henry the Eighth’s services
to the cause of Protestantism did not save him from the execrations
of his Protestant subjects. Pedro el Cruel was probably the most
enlightened man of his nation, a friend of science in an age of
universal ignorance, a protector of Jews and Moriscos in an age of
universal bigotry. But his delight in refinements of cruelty made him
so hateful that at the first opportunity his Trinitarian and Unitarian
subjects joined in a revolt which the tyrant tried in vain to appease by
promises of the most liberal reforms.

Tolerance, properly speaking, is nothing but common humanity,

applied to the settlement of religious controversies; the essential
principle of civilization is humanity applied to the daily commerce of
neighbors and neighboring nations. Superior humanity alone has
founded the prestige of more than one potentially inferior nation.

A benevolent disposition, moreover, finds its own reward in the fact

that the order of the visible universe is, in the main, founded on a
benevolent plan. The system of Nature, with all the apparent ferity of
her destructive moods, tends on the whole to insure the greatest
possible happiness of the greatest possible number, and the natural
inclination of the benevolent man is therefore in sympathy, as it
were, [166]with the current of cosmic tendencies; his mind is in tune
with the harmony of Nature.

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C.—PERVERSION.

The unparalleled inhumanities of the medieval bigots seem to form a

strange contrast with the alleged humanitarian precepts of the
Galilean prophet, but were nevertheless the inevitable consequence
of a doctrine aimed at the suppression of the natural instincts of the
human soul. “Whatever is pleasant is wrong,” was the shibboleth of a
creed that has been justly defined as a “worship of sorrow,” and the
practice of the self-denying virtues was valued chiefly in proportion to
their afflictiveness. Herbert Spencer, in his “Data of Ethics,” has
demonstrated with absolutely conclusive logic that the universal
practice of altruism (i.e., the subordination of personal to alien
interests) would lead to social bankruptcy, but the clear recognition
of that result would have been only an additional motive in
recommending its promotion to the world-renouncing fanaticism of
the Galilean Buddhist. Secular advantages were more than foreign
to the purposes of his reform. “Divest yourself of your earthly
possessions,” was the sum of his advice to salvation-seeking
inquirers. “Renounce! renounce!”—not in order to benefit your
worldly-minded neighbor, but to mortify your own worldliness.
Abandon the path of earthly happiness—not in order to make room
for the crowding multitude, but in order to guide your own steps into
the path of other-worldliness. Disinterestedness, in the Christian
sense, meant the renunciation of all [167]earthly interests whatever;
and the same moralist who commands his disciple to love his
enemies also bids him hate his father, mother, sister, brother, and
friends.

“Seek everything that can alienate you from the love of earth; avoid
everything that can rekindle that love,” would be at once the rationale
and the summary of the Galilean doctrine. Shun pleasure, welcome
sorrow; hate your friends, love your enemies. It might seem as if
precepts of that sort were in no danger of being followed too literally.
We can love only lovely things. We cannot help finding hatefulness
hateful. We cannot relish bitterness. We might as well be told to still
our hunger with icicles or cool our thirst with fire. But even in its
ultimate tendencies the religion of Antinaturalism was anything but a
religion of love. The suppression of physical enjoyments, the war
against freedom, against health and reason, was not apt to increase
the sum of earthly happiness; and the sense of tolerance—nay, the
instinct of common humanity and justice—was systematically
blunted by the worship of a god to whom our ancestors for thirty
generations were taught to ascribe what Feuerbach justly calls “a
monstrous system of favoritism: arbitrary grace for a few children of
luck, and millions foredoomed to eternal damnation.” “The exponents
of that dogma,” says Lecky, “attributed to the creator acts of injustice
and barbarity which it would be absolutely impossible for the
imagination to surpass, acts before which the most monstrous
excesses of human cruelty dwindle into insignificance, [168]acts
which are, in fact, considerably worse than any that theologians have
attributed to the devil.”

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D.—PENALTIES OF NEGLECT.

The Millennium of Madness, as a modern Freethinker calls the

thousand years’ reign of the Galilean superstition, might with equal
justice be called the Age of Inhumanity. “The greatest possible
misery of the greatest possible number” seems to have been the
motto of the medieval dogmatists, and, short of any plan involving
the total destruction of the human race, it seems, indeed, not easy to
imagine a more effective system for crowding the greatest
conceivable amount of suffering into a given space of time. In the
pursuit of their chimeras fanatics have never shrunk from sacrificing
the happiness of their fellow-men; class interests have made
patricians callous to the sufferings of the poor, and revolted pariahs
to the fate of the rich, and in the party warfare of antiquity cruelty
was merely a means for the attainment of enlarged opportunities of
enjoyment. But to the maniacs of the Middle Ages inhumanity seems
to have become an end as well as a means. They inflicted misery for
its own sake; they waged a persistent war against happiness itself,
and their sect-founders vied in the suppression of sympathy with
every natural instinct of the human heart. “If any sect,” says Ludwig
Boerne, “should ever take it into their heads to worship the devil in
his distinctive qualities, and devote themselves to the promotion of
human misery in all its forms, the [169]catechism of such a religion
could be found ready-made in the code of several monastic
colleges.”

Dissenters were murdered, and converts, under the full control of

their spiritual taskmasters, were doomed to a slower, but hardly less
cruel, death by wearing out their lives with penance and
renunciation.

“According to that code,” says Henry Buckle, “all the natural

affections, all social pleasures, all amusements, and all the joyous
instincts of the human heart were sinful.… The clergy looked on all
comforts as sinful in themselves, merely because they were
comforts. The great object of life was to be in a state of constant
affliction. Whatever pleased the senses was to be suspected. It
mattered not what a man liked; the mere fact of his liking it made it
sinful. Whatever was natural was wrong.”

The dogma of salvation by faith seemed to make the enforced

propagation of that faith a sacred duty, and soon drenched the face
of the earth with the blood of pagans and dissenters; the worship of
sorrow drove thousands to devote themselves and their children to a
life of perpetual penance; and the insanities of the hideous
superstition culminated in that dogma of eternal hell tortures that
deprived its converts of the last solace of nature, and barred the last
gate of escape from the horrors of existence.
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E.—REFORM.

The skeptic Holbach, and several of his philosophical friends,

directed the keenest shafts of their logic against the doctrine of
eternal punishment, and never [170]wearied of repeating that the
belief in a merciless God naturally tends to fill the world with
merciless bigots. “How insignificant,” they argued, “the occasional
sufferings of a transient life on earth must appear to the converts of
John Calvin, who held that about nine-tenths of the human race are
foredoomed to an eternity of nameless and hopeless tortures. How
absurd they must deem the complaints of a life-weary wretch, who,
ten to one, will soon look back to the comparative bliss of that life as
to the happiness of a lost Eden.” The Universalists are fond of
enlarging on the moral of that theme, yet from a wider point of view
their objections might be extended to the entire doctrine of other-
worldliness, since Holbach’s argument might find its exact analogue
in the dogma of post mortem compensation. “His soul will be the
gainer,” thought the Crusader who had demonstrated the dangers of
unbelief by smashing a Moorish skull, “and if he should die his spirit
will enter the gates of the New Jerusalem.” “Oh, the ingratitude,”
actually said a priest of the Spanish-American land robbers, “the
ingratitude of the wretches who grudge us the territories of their base
earthly kingdoms and forget that our gospel offers them a passport
to the glorious kingdom of heaven!” “The ingratitude!” repeats the
modern pharisee, “the base ingratitude of those factory children who
grudge me the privileges of my position, and clamor for an increase
of wages to gratify their worldly desires. Consumption? Hunger?
Frost? should not the rich promises of the gospel compensate such
temporal inconveniences, and have I not founded a [171]Sabbath-
school to save them from the lusts of their unregenerate souls?”
Only a few months ago a Chinese philosopher acquainted us with
the verdict of his countrymen on the “gospel of love” that sends its
missionaries on ships loaded with brandy and opium, and escorted
by armadas for the demolition of seaports that might refuse to admit
the cargo of spirituous and spiritual poisons.

Secularism, the religion of Nature, should teach our brethren that

their highest physical and their highest moral welfare can be only
conjointly attained, and that cramping misery stunts the soul, as well
as the body of its victim. It should preach the solidarity of human
interests which prevents the oppressor from enjoying the fruits of his
inhumanity, and makes the curses of his dependents, nay, even the
mute misery of his starving cattle, react on the happiness of a cruel
master. It should expose the business methods of the humanitarians
who propose to silence the clamors of their famished brethren with
consecrated wafers and drafts on the bank of the New Jerusalem.

The Christian duty of transferring our love from our friends to our
enemies may be one of those virtues that have to await their
recompense in a mysterious hereafter, but natural humanity can
hope to find its reward on this side of the grave. [172]

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CHAPTER XIV.
 FRIENDSHIP.

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A.—LESSONS OF INSTINCT.

Philosophers of the utilitarian school have begun to reëstablish the

long-forgotten truth that Materialism is the indispensable root of the
plant which bears its flowers in spiritual aspirations. The
consequence of universal practice is the best test of a dogma, and if
all men were to divest themselves of their earthly possessions and
devote their lives to the hyperphysical vagaries of the Galilean
messiah, there would soon be neither crops to harvest nor bread to
eat, and unworldly saints would starve as surely as ungodly sinners.
“Ideality” may be the crown of the brain, as the brain is of the body,
but the organs of the mind cannot dispense with the aid of the
alimentary organs; the pinnacle of the social fabric needs
intermediate supports. Education has to secure the welfare of the
body before it can successfully cultivate the faculties of the mind;
and it is not less certain that a man has to be a good patriot before
he can be a worthy cosmopolitan, and a good friend before he can
be a good patriot.

In the progress of individual development the instinct of friendship

asserts itself at a very early period. Its recollection hallows the
memory of the poorest childhood. The shepherd-boys of the upper
Alps travel dozens of miles over cliffs and rocks to meet their friends
at a salt-spring; on the shores of the Baltic the boys of the lonely
fishermen’s cabins [173]frequent their trysting-places in spite of wind
and weather. Early friendships throw the charm of their poetry even
over the dreary prosa of grammar-school life; the fellowship of
school-friends forever endears the scenes of their sports and
rambles, and for many a poor office-drudge the recollection of such
hours “holds all the light that shone on the earth for him.” True
friendship smoothens the rough path of poverty, while
friendlessness, even in the gilded halls of wealth, is almost a
synonyme of cheerlessness:

Ich wüsste mir keine grössre Pein,

Als wär’ ich im Paradies allein,

says Goethe. “To be alone in paradise would be the height of

misery.” Friendship will assert itself athwart the barriers of social
inequality, and its germs are so deeply rooted in the instincts of
primitive nature that, in default of a communion of kindred souls, the
bonds of sympathy have often united saints and sinners, nay, even
men and brutes. The traditions of Grecian antiquity have preserved
the possibly apocryphal legend of a dolphin that became attached to
the company of a young fisherman, and after his death left the sea in
search of its friend, and thus perished; but the story of Androcles
was confirmed by the experience of Chevalier Geoffroy de la Tour, a
crusader of the thirteenth century, who was charmed, but finally
distressed, by the affection of a pet lion that followed him like his
shadow, and at last fell a victim to his attachment by trying to swim
after the ship that conveyed his master from Damascus to Genoa.
The traveler Busbequius [174]mentions a lynx that set his heart on
escorting a camp-follower of a Turkish pasha; and Sir Walter Scott
vouches for the touching episode of the Grampian Highlands, where
a young hunter met his death by falling from a steep cliff, and was
found, months after, half covered by the body of his favorite
deerhound, who had followed his friend to the happy hunting-
grounds by starving to death at the feet of a corpse.
Among the ancestors of the Mediterranean nations the betrayal of a
friend was deemed an act of almost inconceivable infamy; friends
and friends engaged in a pledge of mutual hospitality, which was
held sacred even in times of war; and among the natives of the
South Sea Islands a similar brotherhood of elective affinities existed
in the society of the Aroyi, or oath-friends, who held all property in
common, and in times of danger unhesitatingly risked their own lives
in defense of their ally’s. Professor Letourneau has collected many
curious anecdotes of that devotion, which should leave no doubt that
altruism in its noblest form can dispense with the hope of post-
mortem compensation, and, indeed, with all theological motives
whatever.

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B.—REWARDS OF CONFORMITY.

Unselfishness is the soul of true friendship, yet it nevertheless

remains true that all instincts are founded on the experience of
benefits or injuries. During the rough transition period from
beasthood to manhood, when our uncivilized ancestors roamed the
forests of the foreworld, it must have been an [175]incalculable
advantage to the individual hunter or herder to secure the
coöperation of a trusty companion, whose watchful eye would double
his chance of finding food or avoiding danger, whose stout arm might
parry a blow which unaided strength would have failed to avert. As in
other circumstances of natural selection, those who most
successfully availed themselves of such advantages had a superior
chance of survival and consequently of transmitting their disposition
to subsequent generations, and the habit of friendship thus became
a hereditary instinct.

The social system of civilized life has since devised manifold

substitutes for the coöperation of elective affinities, but various
unalienable advantages of the primitive plan have been more or less
clearly recognized by all nations, especially by the manful and
nature-abiding nations of pagan antiquity. The benefits secured by
the mutual aid of sympathizing friends are not limited to the
guarantee of civil rights, but extend to the realization of individual
hopes and the indulgence of personal inclination and predilections,
as well as to the higher privileges of a mental communion for which
the panders of selfish wealth have as yet devised no equivalent. The
power of approbativeness, the main stimulus of ambition, is infinitely
intensified by the emulation of noble friendship, which, in the words
of an ancient philosopher, “inspires to deeds heroic, and makes labor
worth the toils that lead to success.” Such friendship inspired the
heroism of Theseus and Pyrithous, of Harmodius and Aristogiton, of
Nisus and Euryalus, and recorded its experience in proverbs which
have few parallels in [176]the languages of the Christianized nations:
“Solem e mundo qui amicitiam e vita tollunt”—“They deprive the
world of sunshine who deprive life of friendship.” “Amicum perdere
damnorum est maximum”—“To lose a friend is the greatest of
losses.” “Amicus magis necessarius quam ignis aut aqua”—“A friend
is more needful than fire or water.”

In times of tribulation, when the fury of party-strife overrode all other

restraints, friendship has more than once proved its saving power by
averting otherwise hopeless perils. Diagoras was thus saved from
the rage of allied bigots, Demetrius from the dagger of a wily
assassin, the elder Cato from the rancor of political rivals. Without
the aid of a friend Cicero would never have survived the intrigues of
Catiline. Epaminondas made the approval of friends the sole reward
of his heroic life, and vanquished the enemies of his country by the
enthusiasm of the “sacred legion” of mutually devoted and mutually
inspiring friends. Mohammed the Second yielded to the prayer of a
humble companion what he refused to the united threats of foreign
embassadors, and Simon Bolivar, the liberator of South America,
often confessed that he owed his triumphs to the counsel of private
friends rather than to the suggestions of his official advisers.

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C.—PERVERSION.

The blessing of friendship, “doubling the joys of life and lessening its
sorrows,” could not fail to be specially obnoxious to the moralists of a
creed that seeks to lure its converts from earth to ghostland, [177]and
depreciates the natural affections of the human heart. The gloomy
antinaturalism of the Galilean prophet has been glossed over by the
whitewashing committee of the revised Bible, but is too shockingly
evident in the less sophisticated version of the original text to
mistake its identity with the moral nihilism of the world-renouncing
Buddha. The phil’adelphia, or “brother-love,” of the New Testament,
is, in fact, merely a “fellowship in Christ”—the spiritual communion
and mutual indoctrination of earth-renouncing bigots. With the joys
and sorrows of natural friendship their prophet evinces no sympathy
whatever. “I am come,” says he, “to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother, … and a man’s foes
shall be those of his own household.” “He who hates not his father
and mother, his brothers and sisters, cannot be my disciple.” “And
the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son.”
By that test of moral merit the obligation of natural affection counted
as nothing compared with the duty of theological conformity. “Verily, I
say unto you, there is no man that has left brethren or sisters or
father and mother for my sake and the gospels’, but he shall receive
a hundredfold,” etc. “He that loveth father and mother more than me
is not worthy of me.” “And another of his disciples said unto him:
Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said unto
him: Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead.” “For if you love
them which love you, what reward have ye?” [178]

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D.—PENALTIES OF NEGLECT.

The conversion of Rome, which theologians are fond of representing

as the crowning miracle of Christianity, was a natural consequence
of its pessimistic tendencies, which could not fail to recommend
themselves to the instincts of a decrepit generation. “Worn-out
sensualists consoled themselves with the hope of a better hereafter.
Cowards pleased themselves with the idea of fulfilling the duty of
meek submission to the injustice of the ‘powers that be.’ Monastic
drones denounced the worldliness of industrial enterprises. Physical
indolence welcomed the discovery that ‘bodily exercise profiteth but
little.’ Envious impotence insisted on the duty of self-abasement.
Transgressors against the health-laws of Nature relied upon the
efficacy of the prayer-cure. Stall-fed priests sneered at the lean
philosopher who wasted his time upon laborious inquiries, while he
might wax fat on faith and the sacrifices of the pious. The demon-
dogma was a godsend to the spiritual poverty of the elect. The so-
called scholars of the Galilean church, who could not encounter the
pagan philosophers on their own ground, found it very convenient to
postulate a spook for every unknown phenomenon.… Despots
before long recognized the mistake of persecuting a creed which
inculcated the duty of passive submission to oppressors” (Secret of
the East, p. 54).

They also recognized the advantage of a spiritual excuse for the

infamy of their ingratitude to the secular benefactors of mankind.
Cæsar and Trajan [179]treated the humblest centurion as a friend
rather than as a servant. Constantine and Justinian treated the
ablest ministers like slaves who can be forced to toil, and turned out
to starve after having worn out their strength in the service of the
Lord’s anointed. Belisarius, after repeatedly saving his master from
well-deserved ruin, was sacrificed to the spite of a crowned harlot,
and left to beg his bread in the streets of the city which his valor
alone had for years protected from the rage of hostile armies. Aetius,
who had saved all Europe by stemming the torrent of Hunnish
conquest, was treated like a rebellious slave for refusing to betray
his brave allies, and the stipulated pay of his veterans was
squandered on pimps and clerical parasites. Charles Martel, whose
heroism turned the scales against the power of the invading
Moriscos, was openly reviled by the very priests who owed him the
preservation of their lives, as well as of their livings; his image was
dragged in the mire, his soul consigned to the pit of torment—all for
having defrayed the costs of his campaign by tithing prelates as well
as laymen. Columbus was loaded with chains by the pious prince
whose castles he had filled with the treasures of a new world; the
philosopher Vanini was betrayed to death by a Christian spy who
had for years enjoyed his confidence and his hospitality. John Huss
was surrendered by the imperial priest-slave whose own hand had
signed the document of his safe-conduct. The earl of Stafford was
sacrificed by the crowned Jesuit who divided his time between
prayers for the theological interests of his subjects and plots for the