Larson v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. ““Where a criminal warrant is issued by a magistrate in a case where he has no authority to issue process of that nature, ordinarily no question could arise, but 'where jurisdiction is given him over the subject-matter, his warrant ‘reciting the substance of the accusation’ will not always show upon its face whether the magistrate did or did not have the necessary jurisdictional facts before him. And the officer is not required for his protection to inquire into the facts back of his warrant.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Crawford v. Huber