Cases and Materials on Criminal Law (American Casebook Series)

Contains new subject-matter materials, including cases, excerpts from scholarly literature, and/or notes on race-based jury nullification, techniques of statutory interpretation, and statutory rape. The role of culture in determining culpability for criminal conduct; proposed "new defenses"; anti-stalking legislation and laws that punish inchoate conduct on the Internet; and federal mail, wire, and computer fraud laws. Includes an excerpt from Willa Cather's O Pioneer (a Problem on homicide), and the complete Edgar Allan Poe short story The Tell-Tale Heart (a Problem on insanity).