Criminal Procedures: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials
- ISBN-10
- 1567066453
- ISBN-13
- 9781567066456
- Series
- Criminal Procedures
- Category
- Law / Criminal Procedure
- Pages
- 1866
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Aspen Law & Business
- Authors
- Ronald F. Wright, Marc Louis Miller
Description
This exciting new casebook takes a fresh and original approach to comprehensive criminal procedure. Fully reflecting the current redirection of criminal procedure away from federal constitutional adjudication and toward state courts, legislatures, and executive agencies, Miller and Wright's CRIMINAL PROCEDURES provides up-to-the-minute coverage of the way criminal procedure is handled in the courts - and on the streets - of the United States today. Balancing historical development and contemporary issues, The authors include all major U.S. Supreme Court decisions as well as a range of important state cases. They show how state courts have taken all possible positions with respect to Supreme Court precedent. Their impressive coverage of search and seizure issues offers the most thorough treatment in print of the effects of new technology on criminal procedure. The 26 chapters of Criminal Procedures: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials are divided into four main parts: Gathering Information Charging, Preliminary Evaluation of Charges, and Punishing without Conviction Plea Bargaining, Trial, and Other Alternatives Measuring and Reassessing Guilt and Punishment. Because most criminal defendants do not go to trial, The materials emphasize: procedural variety materials from multiple institutions real process topics political context the impact of procedures. Provocative and interesting cases and other primary materials illustrate the core issues, with short notes introducing certain sections. Problems built around actual cases or news accounts of criminal justice events develop themes of innovative multiple institutions in each chapter. Notes on principal cases highlight key points for class discussion. CRIMINAL PROCEDURES: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials is strengthened by: A lively and engaging writing style an exceptionally thorough Teacher's Manual. In addition to supplying background To The problems in the book, it offers exercises in drafting statutes, police department rules or opinions, references, lines of questions, and exercises. A special section gives pointers on how to cover topics in different ways and in shorter amounts of time Separate pages for students and professors on the World Wide Web at www.crimpro.com. Join the numerous professors who hve already adopted this exciting new casebook!
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Other editions
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- 2008-07-07
- 196 pages
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- 1999
- 1134 pages
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- 2023-02-01
- 660 pages
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