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Modern Criminal Procedure: Cases, Comments, and Questions (American Casebook)
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 345
EAN: 9780314159571
Edition: 11
ISBN: 0314159576
Label: West
Manufacturer: West
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1716
Publication Date: 2005-05
Publisher: West
Studio: West
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Contains an overview of the criminal justice process including the nature and scope of the Fourteenth Amendment, due process, retroactivity, the federal "supervisory power," and state rights protection. Also touches on the right to counsel, transcripts, and other aids such as poverty, equality, and the adversary system. Includes reflections on the police, courts, and the criminal process. Provides insight into pretrial release, the decision whether to prosecute, the preliminary hearing, and the grand jury review. Looks at reprosecution and the ban against double jeopardy.
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Rating:  - Very Very In-depth
This isn't just a casebook, it's a damn near encyclopedia on criminal procedure. Odds are if you use this text, your professor was smart enough to cover only specific areas.
As for the text itself, the materials are very in-depth, with detailed Note section spaced in between the few principal cases that the book has to offer. Some notes are extremely relevant to the rule being studied, while others are simple musings, criticisms, and/or the author's opinions on the subject material ... Read More
Rating:  - Definitely thorough.
You have to give the editors some credit--it only took around 1600+ pages to cover everything you'd ever want to know about criminal procedure. Seriously, though, I feel this casebook does a better job than most. As expected, it puts in the edited text of the seminal cases, but the casebook does the best between the cases. The notes that follow the cases are incredibly comprehensive. Instead of just adding a couple of squib cases, the notes seem to take the reader down the complete path(s) of the ... Read More
Rating:  - Maybe the true solution is an extension from 4 credits to 8.
This text is not only voluminous, it is quite dense. While it looks and feels as exciting as Evidence, when you turn the pages, it has a tendency to bore. Needs more case law and less editorial bashing of both students and advocates. xoxo Snuffy
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