This casebook relies on Tennessee-specific statutes and cases to illustrate how abstract concepts of criminal law play out on the ground. The role of prosecutors in defining the law through their charging and plea bargaining decisions is emphasized throughout. The mental elements of crimes are analyzed in context, illustrating how the same mental element can be proven differently depending on whether the defendant knew, for instance, that he had stolen goods or illegal drugs. By mooring the discussion to the Tennessee Code, rather than the Model Penal Code, this book is a practical text for law students in Tennessee that does not sacrifice the philosophical discussions central to criminal law.

Tennessee Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (American Casebook Series)

Blaze, Douglas

Oliver, Wesley

Criminal Law

West Academic Publishing

This book combines substantive criminal law with exercises offering practical experience. Students are asked to draft indictments, jury instructions, motions, and to engage in plea bargaining. The basic elements of each crime are spelled out before difficult applications of those elements are presented. It takes a very modern approach to criminal law. The majority of the cases in the book were decided in the 21st Century.

Experiencing Criminal Law (Experiencing Law Series)

Chin, Gabriel

Evidence: Common Law and Federal Rules of Evidence.

Evidence: Common Law and Federal Rules of Evidence

Durrer, Dale

Trychta, Kirsha

Carolina Academic Press

In the same tradition of prior editions, this Seventh Edition examines and presents each evidence topic in the following format: Common Law: The authors introduce this topic through narrative explanations of the common-law principles. Federal Rules of Evidence: This edition presents the applicable Federal Rule of Evidence with a brief overview of how that rule changed the common law. Judicial opinions exploring contemporary issues then follow. This portion of the materials most closely resembles the classical law school casebook. Relationship to Other Rules: At the end of each topic, the discussion centers on how the rule under study is part of a larger cohesive code and works in conjunction with other rules. Problems: To broaden students' learning experience and give them an opportunity to test the level of their understanding of basic principles, each subject area ends with hypotheticals taken from recent cases. 
In this latest edition, the authors reduced the size of the text by deleting and abbreviating lengthy and complicated opinions, producing narrative summaries and more manageable opinions, and excising lengthy articles and excerpts. These changes simplify and clarify the learning experience. In practice, the subject of evidence is large, deep, and complex, particularly when examining existing problems with the Federal Rules of Evidence, teasing out inconsistencies in them, accounting for constitutional implications when the Confrontation and Due Process Clauses are incorporated, applying traditional rules to digital evidence, and evaluating the necessity of modernizing the codified rules. 
This book also is available in a three-hole punched, alternative loose-leaf version printed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper with wider margins and with the same pagination as the hardbound book. 
PowerPoint slides are available to professors upon adoption of this book. Download sample slides from the full 538-slide presentation here. If you have adopted the book for a course, contact crutan (at) cap-press (dot) com to request the PowerPoint slides.

As a part of our CasebookPlus offering, you'll receive the print book along with lifetime digital access to the eBook. Additionally you'll receive the Learning Library which includes quizzes tied specifically to your book, and outline starter and digital access to leading study aids in that subject and the Gilbert Law Dictionary. This book combines substantive criminal law with exercises offering practical experience. Students are asked to draft indictments, jury instructions, motions, and to engage in plea bargaining. The basic elements of each crime are spelled out before difficult applications of those elements are presented. It takes a very modern approach to criminal law. The majority of the cases in the book were decided in the 21st Century.

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Tennessee Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (American Casebook Series)

Experiencing Criminal Law (Experiencing Law Series)

Evidence: Common Law and Federal Rules of Evidence

Evidence: Common Law and Federal Rules of Evidence

Experiencing Criminal Law (Experiencing Law Series)