Product Description: This unique coursebook attempts to recreate for law students the experience that lawyers have when analyzing the procedural issues involved in the investigatory phase of a criminal case. This approach not only enhances learning but also makes learning enjoyable since students get to play lawyer...read more

Product Description: This book is about police practices. Besides being essential to the criminal practitioner, understanding the constitutional limitations on police practices should be a part of any citizen-lawyer's legal repertoire. The presentation of the materials is focused, with lightly edited cases followed by a series of focused questions and notes...read more

Product Description: Using a blend of text and edited cases, this book provides up-to-date coverage of constitutional criminal procedure. It covers all relevant Fourth Amendment topics, incorporation, confessions, right to counsel, identification and entrapment, and separate chapters on the pre-trial and trial process...read more

Product Description: For courses in criminal procedure. Criminal Procedure: Constitution & Society, 4e focuses on the relationship of the law to society and the criminal justice system. Constitutional criminal procedure law under the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights is presented in a unique way that helps students learn the law and discover how the law fits into society...read more

Criminal Procedure: Constitutional Constraints Upon Investigation and Proof focuses on issues raised by law enforcement investigatory practices. The casebook, which can be used in both introductory and upper-level courses, considers a range of pretrial issues, including searches and seizures, confessions, eyewitness identification procedures, entrapment, the right to counsel, and the exclusionary rules. The text is an excellent tool for comprehensive exploration of the protections provided by the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause and Privilege Against Compulsory Self-Incrimination, and the Sixth Amendment Right to the Assistance of Counsel:•   Each chapter begins with an Introductory Note to provide a context for the cases that follow;•   All excerpted United States Supreme Court opinions are carefully edited to preserve the critical elements of the majority and dissenting Justices' reasoning;•   Textual note material is kept to a minimum;•   An ample number of cumulative and topical problems based on actual federal and state cases appear at the end of every section; and•   The casebook is compatible for a variety of teaching methods from traditional Socratic to problem-oriented approaches.

Product Description: The Fifth Edition is an entire reworking of this classic casebook. Beyond its traditional role in teaching a broad-gauge federal criminal law course, the book is highly appropriate to use for white collar crime courses; for example, fraud materials focus on business practices uncovered in the current economic meltdown...read more

Product Description: Book by Nemeth, Charles P. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)