Cases on Criminal Procedure: 2017-2018 Edition (Aspen Select)

Judiciously organized and edited, Cases on Criminal Procedure, 2017 2018, offers a collection of Supreme Court cases that illustrate the underpinnings of police practice. This succinct and adaptable text raises a wide range of questions about the processing of criminals through the American justice system a process that is described in the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments of the Constitution.

Spanning 100 years of Supreme Court rulings with a focus on the last 55 years, Cases on Criminal
Procedure, 2017 2018 features:

• Historical perspective on the shifting interpretations of the Court under the leadership of Chief Justices Warren, Burger,
• Rehnquist, and Roberts
• Up-to-date cases: Rodriguez v. United States, Birchfield v. North Dakota, Utah v. Strieff, and Los Angeles v. Patel
• A deep and broad case selection, along with full voting histories for each case
• Succinct, accessible chapter introductions that identify salient theses and issues and provide discussion of insights
• from legal theory
• The full text of the relevant Constitutional Amendments and a chart of Supreme Court Justices from 1940 to the
• present