Comprehensive Criminal Procedure 2010 Case Supplement

To ensure that you have the most up-to-date and complete materials for your Criminal Procedure class, be sure to use Comprehensive Criminal Procedure, 2010 Case Supplement. The supplement expands and updates coverage of the most significant Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and includes these new and important U.S. Supreme Court cases:

• RIGHT TO COUNSEL – Padilla v. Kentucky finds ineffective assistance of counsel when defense attorney failed to advise defendant that he faced possible deportation if he pleaded guilty to criminal charges
• RIGHT TO COUNSEL – Smith v. Spisak and Wood v. Allen, together with a series of per curiam decisions, deal with the minimum standard for effective assistance of counsel in connection with a capital sentencing hearing
• INTERROGATION – Florida v. Powell holds that Miranda was not violated when warnings did not explicitly state that suspect had the right to consult with an attorney at any time during questioning
• INTERROGATION – Berghuis v. Thompkins rules that police may interrogate suspect who has been given Miranda warnings but neither invoked nor waived Miranda rights; moreover, on facts of case, suspect’s prolonged silence during interrogation did not constitute invocation of Miranda rights
• INTERROGATION – Maryland v. Shatzer holds that suspect who invokes right to counsel during custodial interrogation, thus triggering Edwards bar on further questioning, may be interrogated again after being released from “investigative custody” for at least 14 days
• SPEEDY TRIAL – Bloate v. United States interprets Speedy Trial Act of 1974 as not excluding delays resulting from defendant’s request for additional time to prepare pretrial motions
• SENTENCING – Graham v. Florida holds that life imprisonment without parole for a non-homicide crime committed by a juvenile is “cruel and unusual” punishment in violation of Eighth Amendment
• APPEAL – United States v. Marcus clarifies the meaning of “plain error” in a federal criminal appeal