Basic Criminal Procedure: Cases, Comments and Questions (American Casebook Series)

One of the best-selling casebooks of all time. The book provides materials that afford a teacher maximum freedom to shape his or her own course in light of a particular teacher’s own sense of priorities and interests. At many places the editors have sought to enrich the case material with editors’ Notes & Questions or extracts from illuminating and insightful books, reports and law review articles. The book contains such topics as:

• Arrest, search and seizure
• Right to counsel
• Police interrogation and confessions
• Undercover investigations
• Computer network surveillance
• Lineups and other Pre-Trial Identification Procedures
• Grand jury investigation
• Scope of the exclusionary rules