Law school casebook that facilitates the development of advocacy skills. The problems and exercises were designed to place students in real-life situations and encourage students to think about how to handle such situations. At the same time, the book emphasizes intellectual content. Students are encouraged to evaluate policy considerations that underlie the law, and to consider the efficacy and wisdom of the United States Supreme Court's policy choices. Includes not only modern cases that reflect the current state of the law, but some older cases that help students understand and evaluate the modern approach.
New York (392 U.S. 40 [1968]), in which the Court ruled that the search of the arrestee's person was valid because it did not involve an “unrestrained and thorough-going examination of Peters and his personal effects.
Facts The instigator of this bizarre drama was Mel Coley, a drug dealer who resided in Washington, D.C., but who was also connected with dealers in Kansas City. Coley had a history of dealing with a supplier named Bill Varnes, ...
Building on the insights of Seidmann and Stein's pathbreaking game-theoretic analysis of the privilege against self-incrimination,144 the Article argues that the decision to cooperate or not ...
Criminal Procedure: The Post-investigative Process
The book utilizes a chronological approach that guides students through criminal procedure doctrine from rules governing law enforcement investigation to matters related to habeas corpus relief.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Understanding Criminal Procedure
gives a statement that Payton is the drug dealer, not him, and that Payton had borrowed his car and must have put the ten kilos into his car. Harris says he knew Payton, Rakas, and Dunaway sold cocaine, but again says that he was there ...
This edition features a new chapter covering searches of Internet-connected devices and electronic devices that may store personally connected data.
Unlike casebooks, this title goes with greater detail into the human stories and the social, political, and legal contexts of the "big" Supreme Court cases regarding criminal justice. It unearths...