The Gatehouses and Mansions: Fifty Years Later

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 6, pp. 19.1-19.17, 2010

Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2010-23

43 Pages Posted: 23 Jul 2010 Last revised: 18 Nov 2010

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Richard A. Leo

University of San Francisco

Alexa Koenig

University of California, Berkeley - Human Rights Program; University of California, Berkeley - School of Law

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Abstract

In 1965, Yale Kamisar authored “Equal Justice in the Gatehouses and Mansions of American Criminal Procedure,” an article that would come to have an enormous impact on the development of criminal procedure and American norms of criminal justice. Today, that article is a seminal work of scholarship, hailed for “playing a significant part in producing some of the [Warren] Court’s most important criminal-procedure decisions” (White 2003-04), including Miranda v. Arizona. The most influential concept Kamisar promoted may have been his recognition of a gap that loomed between the Constitutional rights actualized in mansions (courts) versus gatehouses (police stations). Kamisar passionately detailed how the Constitution and its jurisprudential progeny failed to protect suspects when those rights mattered most: when facing questioning by police. This article discusses where this thesis stands today in light of nearly 50 years of legal developments and social science research.

Keywords: Miranda, Constitution, interrogation, rights, police, confessions, criminal procedure

Suggested Citation

Leo, Richard A. and Koenig, Alexa, The Gatehouses and Mansions: Fifty Years Later. Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 6, pp. 19.1-19.17, 2010, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2010-23, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1646658

Richard A. Leo (Contact Author)

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Alexa Koenig

University of California, Berkeley - Human Rights Program

Berkeley, CA 94720-5800
United States

University of California, Berkeley - School of Law ( email )

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Berkeley, CA 94720-7200
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