Research Catalog

Title

Modern criminal procedure : cases, comments, and questions / by Yale Kamisar ... [et al.].

Publication

St. Paul, Minn. : West Group, 1999.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Kamisar, Yale

Description

lxxxv, 1661, 36 p.; 27 cm.

Series Statement

American casebook series.

Uniform Title

American casebook series

Subject

Criminal procedure > United States > Cases

Genre/Form

Trials, litigation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

An overview of the criminal justice process -- The nature and scope of fourteenth amendment due process, retroactivity, the federal "supervisory power", state rights protections -- The right to counsel, transcripts and other aids, poverty, equality and the adversary system -- Some general reflections on the police, the courts and the criminal process -- Arrest, search and seizure -- Wiretapping, electronic eavesdropping, the use of secret agents to obtain incriminating statements, and the fourth amendment -- Police "encouragement" and the defense of entrapment -- Police interrogation and confessions -- Lineups, showups and other pre-trial identification procedures -- Grand jury investigations -- The scope of the exclusionary rules -- Pretrial release -- The decision whether to prosecute -- The preliminary hearing -- Grand jury review -- The charging instrument -- The location of the prosecution -- The scope of the prosecution: joinder and severance of offenses and defendants -- The right to a "Speedy trial" and to "speedy disposition" at other steps in the criminal process -- The assistance of counsel -- Discovery and disclosure -- Coerced, induced and negotiated guilty pleas, professional responsibility -- Trial by jury -- "Trial by newspaper" and television -- The criminal trial -- Reprosecution and the ban against double jeopardy -- Sentencing -- Appeals -- Post-conviction review: federal Habeas Corpus.

ISBN

0314239006

OCLC

• 41983924
• SCSB-10246147

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library