The Fourth Edition of this clearly written Understanding treatise is new in many respects. Most significantly, it has been enlarged to two volumes. Volume One: Investigation is intended for use in criminal procedure courses focusing primarily or exclusively on the police investigatory process. Volume Two: Adjudication covers the criminal process after the police investigation ends and the adjudicative process commences. The text covers the most important United States Supreme Court cases in the field. Where pertinent, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, federal statutes, and lower federal and state court cases are considered. The broad overarching policy issues of criminal procedure are laid out and some of the hottest debates in the field are considered in depth and objectively. The authors have also included citations to important scholarship, both classic and recent, into which readers may delve more deeply regarding specific topics.
To view or download the 2020 Supplement to this book, click here. The Fourth Edition of this clearly written Understanding treatise is new in many respects. Most significantly, it has been enlarged to two volumes.
15 Alan M. Dershowitz, The Best Defense xxi (1982) (stating that two rules of “the justice game” are: (1) “[a]lmost all criminal defendants are in fact guilty”; and (2) “[a]ll defense lawyers, prosecutors and judges understand and ...
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This book is part of the Carolina Academic Press Mastering Series edited by Russell L. Weaver, University of Louisville School of Law.
Understanding Criminal Procedure
Features: Written in the approachable style of Chemerinsky's Constitutional Law casebook features cases and minor cases offers author-written essays omits both notes in the form of rhetorical questions and excerpts from law review articles ...
Offering a detailed account of the "bail to jail" segment of the criminal process, Criminal Procedures: Prosecution and Adjudication, Third Edition , lays out the essentials of this process. it...
This book is what you might think of as a Marie Kondo version of criminal procedure: happiness by decluttering.
Nine days later, on December 8, 1973, Brown was caught driving the car in Wickliffe, Ohio. The Wickliffe police charged him with “joyriding”—taking or operating the car without the owner's consent—in violation of Ohio Rev.
In the Sixth Edition, the authors retain the vitality and contemporary approach of the book with an updated selection of cases, statutes, and office policies.