Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

St. Paul, MN : Thomson/West, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kamisar, Yale

Description

cx, 1617, 38 p.; 27 cm.

Summary

"One of the best-selling casebooks of all time, this work provides materials that afford maximum freedom to teachers shaping a course in light of their own priorites and interests. Editors have sought to enrich the case material throughout with editors' notes and questions or with extracts from illuminating and insightful books, reports, and law review articles. The book covers topics such as: Arrest, search and seizure, and the right to counsel Police interrogation and confessions Undercover investigations and computer network surveillance Guilty pleas Trial by jury and postconviction review Individual rights and the war on terrorism"--Publisher's Website.

Series Statement

American casebook series

Alternative Title

Modern criminal procedure : cases, comments, questions

Subject

Criminal procedure > United States > Cases

Genre/Form

• Casebooks (Law)
• Trials, litigation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. xciii-cx) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

On studying the legal regulation of the criminal justice process -- Sources of criminal procedure law -- Some general reflections on criminal procedure and its administration -- The right to counsel, "by far the most pervasive" right of the accused ; Equality and the adversary system -- The role of counsel -- Arrest, search and seizure -- Undercover investigations -- Network surveillance -- 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 -- Joinder and severance -- Speedy trial and other speedy disposition -- Discovery and related rights -- Guilty pleas -- Trial by jury -- Media rights vs. fair trial rights -- The criminal trial -- Reprosecution and the ban against double jeopardy -- Sentencing -- Appeals -- Post-conviction review : federal habeas corpus.

ISBN

• 9780314189875 (alk. paper)
• 0314189874 (alk. paper)

OCLC

232363177

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library