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LWW Criminal Procedures Cases Statutes And Executive Materials Sixth Edition by Marc L. Miller
Buy a new version of this Connected Casebook and receive access to the online e-book, practice questions from your favorite study aids, and an outline tool on CasebookConnect, the all in one learning solution for law school students. CasebookConnect offers you what you need most to be successful in your law school classes-- portability, meaningful feedback, and greater efficiency. In Criminal Procedures: Prosecution and Adjudication: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials, Sixth Edition, the highly respected author team presents a student-friendly, comprehensive survey of the laws and practices at work between the time a person is charged and the moment when the courts hear an appeal after the offender's conviction and sentence. In the Sixth Edition, the authors retain the vitality and contemporary approach of the book with an updated selection of cases, statutes, and office policies. Covering in detail the "bail-to-jail" portions of the criminal process, this casebook features: Extensive use of documents from multiple institutions including U.S. Supreme Court cases, state high court cases, state and federal statutes, rules of procedure, and prosecutorial policiesA real world perspective that focuses on high-volume issues of current importance to defendants, lawyers, courts, legislators, and the public instead of intricate but rarely-encountered questionsInterdisciplinary examination of the impact that different procedures have on the enforcers, lawyers, courts, communities, defendants, and victimsPoints of comparison between U.S. practices and the systems at work in other countriesFrequent use of Problems to give the instructor options for applying concepts and doctrines in realistic practice settings.New to the Sixth Edition: Two new authors join the editorial team: Jenia I. Turner of SMU Dedman School of Law and Kay L. Levine of Emory University School of Law: A revamped Chapter 2 surveys the major changes in the use of money bail and risk assessment algorithms, previewing the prospects for further system reforms.Chapter 3 covers newsworthy recent changes in the charging policies and diversion practices of prosecutors' offices, especially those in urban areas such as Philadelphia.Chapter 7 expands its coverage of the tensions between fair trials and public trials, including new materials on public access to court files and statistics.A refocused Chapter 9 provides a more detailed and vivid portrait of sentencing hearings and the use of risk assessment instruments.Professors and students will benefit from: Materials that support class discussion, including criminal justice actors beyond the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: the vision is "street level federalism"Materials that give students a nuanced portrait of current practices in criminal justice rather than a rushed historical narrative about doctrinal trendsA supporting website that offers exemplar documents, recent news with relevance for criminal procedure, and brief video lectures to introduce each major unitIntuitive organization--tracking the typical order of events in criminal court--that makes it easy to see connections among different areas of the lawCasebookConnect features: ONLINE E-BOOKHighlight, take notes in the margins, and search the full text to quickly find coverage of legal topics.PRACTICE QUESTIONSPractice questions from Examples & Explanations, Emanuel Law Outlines, Emanuel Law in a Flash flashcards, and other best-selling study aid series help you study for exams while tracking your strengths and weaknesses to help optimize your study time.OUTLINE TOOLThe Outline Tool automatically populates your notes and highlights from the e-book into an editable format to accelerate your outline creation and increase study time later in the semester. PART I: INTRODUCTION.1. The Court System and Sources of Rights. 2. Overview of the Criminal Justice Process.PART II: LEVELS OF PROOF AND THE EXCLUSIONARY RULE.3. Probable Cause and Reasonable Suspicion.4. The Exclusionary Rule.PART III: SEARCHES AND SEIZURES OF PERSONS.5. Stop and Frisk and Stationhouse Detention.6. Arrests and Use of Force.PART IV: SEARCHES AND SEIZURES OF PROPERTY.7. Searches and Seizures of Things.8. Motor Vehicle Stops, Searches, and Inventories.9. Plain View, Open Fields, Abandonment, and Border Searches.PART V: IDENTIFICATIONS, CONFESSIONS, AND ADMISSIONS.10. Lineups and Other Means of Pretrial Identification.11. Confessions and Admissions: Miranda v. Arizona.PART VI: CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF POLICE MISCONDUCT.12. Basic Constitutional Rights of the Accused During the Trial.13. Sentencing, the Death Penalty, and Other Forms of Punishment.14. Legal Liabilities and Other Consequences of Police Misconduct.15. Electronic Surveillance and the War on Terror. Appendixes.A. Guide to Case Briefing.B. The Case of Minnesota v. Dickerson-A Full Reprint.C. Thirty Suggestions on How to Be an Effective Witness.D. The Constitution of the United States.Case Index.Name/Subject Index.