Comprehensive Criminal Procedure [Connected eBook with Study Center]

by Allen, Ronald J.; Hoffmann, Joseph L.; Livingston, Debra A.; Leipold, Andrew D.; Meares, Tracey L.

• ISBN13: 9798889061823
• ISBN10: 8889061820
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-02-01
• Publisher: Aspen Publishing

Summary

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This is a casebook for all introductory courses in criminal procedure law (including both investigation and adjudication courses, as well as comprehensive and survey courses). The casebook focuses primarily on constitutional criminal procedure law, but also covers relevant statutes and court rules. The casebook is deliberately challenging—it is designed for teachers who want to explore deeply not only the contemporary state of the law, but also its historical and theoretical foundations. The casebook incorporates a particular emphasis on empirical knowledge about the real-world impacts of law-in-action; the significance of race and class; the close relationship between criminal procedure law and substantive criminal law; the cold reality that hard choices sometimes must be made in a world of limited criminal justice resources; and, finally, the recognition that criminal procedure law always should strive to achieve both fairness to the accused and justice for society as a whole.

New to the Sixth Edition:

• New important judicial decisions and statutory and rule changes since the Sixth Edition
• New “roadmap” introductions to each set of Notes and Questions, providing guidance to both students and faculty
• Updated and expanded treatment of police use of force
• Updated treatment of ineffective assistance in plea bargaining
• A reorganized and substantially revised discussion of the Crawford doctrine
• Updated notes on contemporary issues such as racial disparity in policing, encryption, false confessions, progressive prosecutors, cash bail, and cybercrimes

Benefits for instructors and students:

• A rigorous and challenging criminal procedure casebook with presentation and careful editing
• Sophisticated cases-and-notes book by a prestigious author team that incorporates the latest and most highly respected developments in legal scholarship in the field of criminal procedure law
• Appropriate balance of explanatory text and secondary material
• Thematic organization, structured around important main themes
• Extensive revisions and updates
• The only criminal procedure casebook on the market today that enables students to understand completely the roots of the modern controversy over privacy and security in a digital age

Table of Contents

Summary of Contents

Contents 
Preface 
Acknowledgments 

PART ONE
THE CRIMINAL PROCESS 
Chapter 1 Introduction to the Criminal Justice “System”
Chapter 2 The Idea of Due Process

PART TWO
THE RIGHT TO COUNSEL — THE LINCHPIN OF
CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION 
Chapter 3 The Right to Counsel and Other Assistance 

PART THREE
THE RIGHT TO BE LET ALONE — AN EXAMINATION
OF THE FOURTH AND FIFTH AMENDMENTS AND
RELATED AREAS 
Chapter 4 The Rise, Fall, and Return of Boyd v. United States 
Chapter 5 The Fourth Amendment 
Chapter 6 Criminal Investigations in the Fourth Amendment’s Shadow 
Chapter 7 The Fifth Amendment 

PART FOUR
THE ADJUDICATION PROCESS 
Chapter 8 The Charging Decision 
Chapter 9 Bail and Pretrial Detention 
Chapter 10 Pretrial Screening and the Grand Jury 
Chapter 11 The Scope of the Prosecution
Chapter 12 Discovery and Disclosure 
Chapter 13 Guilty Pleas and Plea Bargaining
Chapter 14 The Jury and the Criminal Trial 

PART FIVE
POST- TRIAL PROCEEDINGS
Chapter 15 Sentencing
Chapter 16 Double Jeopardy
Chapter 17 Appellate and Collateral Review 
United States Constitution (Selected Provisions)

Table of Cases 
Table of Authorities
Table of Statutes and Rules 
Index