Overview
Criminal Procedure Today, second edition continues to present the difficult and extensive topic of criminal procedure in an easy-to-understand format. The book uses a relevant, engaging style and familiar, concrete words whenever possible, making complicated procedural issues accessible and relevant to students. This mid-level book is appealing to all readers because it is thorough without being encyclopedic. Most professors prefer either the black letter law approach or the case approach when teaching criminal procedures; in Criminal Procedure Today, respected author Cliff Roberson combines both in a way that will please everybody.
New to this edition:
- New cited cases include the power of police to make arrests and stop vehicles, traffic stops, drug checkpoints, use of illegally seized evidence, and probable cause to search passengers.
- Discussions on the newest cases from the U.S. Supreme Court including the 'Soccer Mom' case (Atwater v. Lago Vista); Florida v. J.L. on the use of anomalous tips to search vehicles; Apprendi v. New Jersey; Ferguson v. City of Charleston; Kyllo v. United States; Texas v. Cobb; and Knowles v. Iowa.
Online research, search and seizure, impermissible searches, when the right to counsel attaches, grand juries, right to trial by jury, indictments, identification problems, sequential viewing of photo lineups, eyewitness misidentification problems, DNA testing problems, exclusionary rule, and police misconduct.
Synopsis
This casebook on criminal procedure uses language that is easily accessible to readers, and combines both the “black letter” law approach and the case approach by beginning each chapter with a discussion of the law, followed by significant cases (carefully edited and abridged) in that area.
Comprehensive in coverage, it explores criminal procedure in relation to the courts; the justice system; the Fourth Amendment; Fourth Amendment exceptions; interrogation, confessions, and admissions; remedies; identification; pretrial proceedings; counsel; grand jury, charging decision and speedy trial; and punishment.
For anyone seeking an introduction to the law and the courts of the United States judicial system.