Book Series: Understanding Criminal Procedure

Understanding Criminal Procedure: Volume One, Investigation

By Joshua Dressler, Alan C. Michaels

Moore.23 According to Moore, an arrest based on probable cause, although in violation of state law, is “lawful” for purposes of the Fourth Amendment, i.e., it is a constitutionally lawful arrest. A search conducted as an incident of ...

Understanding Criminal Procedure: Volume One, Investigation

By Joshua Dressler, Alan C. Michaels

Williams,134 a follow-up case to Brewer v. Williams.135 In Williams II, the issue was whether the body of the victim found by the police as the result of their use of the Christian burial speech was inadmissible as a fruit of the ...

Understanding Criminal Procedure: Investigation

By Joshua Dressler, Alan C. Michaels

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 ...

Understanding Criminal Procedure: Adjudication

By Joshua Dressler, Alan C. Michaels

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%, ...

Understanding Criminal Procedure: Adjudication

By Joshua Dressler, Alan C. Michaels, Ric Simmons

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.