Upholding the Rule Of Law Term Paper

Criminal Procedure
Chief Justice Earl Warren had a political background, unlike his counterpart Justice William. He is one of the chief justices in the U.S. who had a significant influence on the criminal procedures offered by the Supreme Court of the United States of America. He brought in the notion of strong belief in the remedial power of the law. He had a pragmatic view of the law, something he used in influencing the Supreme Court. He made the court accept the idea of using the law as a weapon of accessing fairness and equity (Wilson, 2012). The Warren’s courts criminal procedures were focused on ethical principles and not interpretive structures that were narrow. He viewed the handling and descriptions of the narrower interpretive structures as patterns of reasoning that were conventional. He made rejections of them as with the case like Brown v. Board of Education, Reynolds v. Sims and Miranda v. Arizona. He used principles that were viewed by many as intuitive, political, and not legal in a conventional and technical sense (Hensley, 2006).
In Warren’s case, the court procedures assumed observation of consensus. This was applied when the cases were most controversial. For instance, some of the cases that attracted this point-of-view were the Brown v. Board of Education case. This case, among others of the same nature, had unanimous decisions (Acker