Criminal Procedure: Adjudication and Right to Counsel, Third Edition is designed for the criminal procedure course focused on the pretrial, trial, and post-trial processes. It covers prosecutorial decision making, pretrial release, grand juries, speedy trial rights, venue, joinder and severance, discovery, guilty pleas and plea bargains, trials, sentencing, appeals, and postconviction challenges. The book is designed to be used with the annual supplement that contains the statutes and rules covered in the course. This split is derived from the successful casebook Comprehensive Criminal Procedure by the same experienced author team. New to the Third Edition: The latest in case law, statutory material, and academic commentary about due process, the right to counsel, pretrial practice, guilty pleas, trial rights, sentencing, double jeopardy, and post-trial procedures An increased emphasis on the role of prosecutorial decision-making An updated treatment of the critical role of plea bargaining A new section on forfeitures and the Eighth Amendment Professors and students will benefit from: A rigorous and challenging criminal procedure casebook with an outstanding author team Sound grounding of the law in criminal process and the right to counsel Thematic organization of the cases and text that make the book both manageable and accessible The latest and most highly respected developments in legal scholarship that help both professors and students alike stay up-to-date in the field of criminal procedure law
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...
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.
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?
This comprehensive text uses a real world focus to cover all of criminal procedure, from first contact to appeal.
This is an ideal text for anyone studying the criminal justice system at a professional or academic level.
Comprehensive and accurate without bogging you down in unnecessary details, the text includes cutting-edge coverage of the law on arrests, searches and seizures, vehicle stops, use of force, interrogations, and line-ups.
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 ...
41 See Daniel J. Freed & Patricia M. Wald, Ball in the United States: 1964 40 (1964) (reporting the following felony detention rates in the early 1960s, pre-reform: Baltimore-75%, Boston-54%, Detroit-48%, District of Columbia-84%, ...
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, ...
Topically organized, LexisNexis Practice Guide New Jersey Criminal Procedure covers the entire process of a criminal trial in New Jersey, from the initial representation of a client through sentencing and post-sentencing procedures and much ...