Like the law school casebook that this supplement updates, it facilitates the development of advocacy skills in criminal cases. Helps encourage students to think about how to handle such situations, while emphasizing intellectual content. Includes cases and materials released since the publication of the named casebook.
This edition has been specifically designed for CJ undergraduate programs (rather than higher-level law schools) and completely reorganized for a more logical flow of topics.
up with Martin were either FBI agents or local police officers ; that there was a likelihood that the witness , St. Onge , had known one or more of them to be law enforcement officers before seeing them in the lineup ; that he may have ...
Utilizing extensive case material, this book covers the historical background of criminal procedure and includes the latest Supreme Court decisions and other developments in criminal justice today.
Comprehensive and accurate without bogging readers down in unnecessary details, the text includes cutting-edge coverage of the law as it relates to arrests, searches and seizures, vehicle stops, use of force, interrogations, and line-ups.
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.
Alabama: The Supreme Court Confronts 'Legal Lynchings,'” in Carol S. Steiker, ed., Criminal Procedure Stories (New York: Foundation Press, 2008), pp. 1–44. ... Gerald N. Rosenberg, The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?
In this revised fourth edition, the authors have updated the casebook in light of dramatic changes that have taken place in crime victims rights since the last edition.
A favorite among successful students, and often recommended by professors, the unique Examples & Explanations series gives you extremely clear introductions to concepts followed by realistic examples that mirror those presented in the ...
A leading case in the development of the law was Shapiro v. United States.148 In Shapiro, the Court upheld the constitutionality of federal regulations issued under the Emergency Price Control Act, which required certain licensed ...
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, ...