Criminal Procedure : Law and Practice
ISBN: 9780495599333 | 0495599336
Edition: 8thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/8/2009
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Filled with many examples from real-world situations faced by today's law enforcement professionals, CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: LAW AND PRACTICE gives you a practical understanding of the current legal guidelines in criminal procedure. Complete, current, and accurate?without bogging you down in unnecessary details?this engaging book includes coverage of the law on arrests, searches and seizures, vehicle stops, use of force, interrogations, and line-ups. It also discusses current topics such as racial profiling, DNA evidence, plea bargaining, terrorism, and electronic surveillance. Long known for its relevance to day-to-day law enforcement, this book features interesting case briefs, sample police forms, hypothetical cases, and coverage of the most recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings. Clear and reader-friendly, this book makes law enforcement legal concepts easy to understand and apply.
| Introduction | |
| The Court System and Sources of Rights | |
| Overview of the Criminal Justice Process | |
| Levels of Proof and the Exclusionary rule | |
| Probable Cause and Reasonable Suspicion | |
| The Exclusionary Rule | |
| Searches and Seizures of Persons | |
| Stop and Frisk, Border Searches and Seizures, and Stationhouse Detention | |
| Arrests and Responses to... MORE | |
| Searches and Seizures of Property | |
| Searches and Seizures of Things | |
| Vehicle Stops, Searches, and Inventories | |
| Plain View, Open Fields, Abandonment, and Electronic Surveillance | |
| Identifications , Confessions, and Admissions | |
| Lineups and Other Pretrial Identification Procedures | |
| Confessions and Admissions: Miranda v. Arizona | |
| Constitutional Rights and the Consequences of Police Misconduct | |
| Basic Rights of the Accused During the Trial | |
| Sentencing, The Death Penalty, and Other Forms of Punishment | |
| Legal Liabilities and Other Consequences of Police Misconduct | |
| Responses to Terrorism and Electronic Surveillance | |
| Appendixes | |
| Guide to Case Briefing | |
| The Case of Minnesota v. Dickerson-A Full Reprint | |
| Thirty Suggestions on How to Be an Effective Witness | |
| The Constitution of the United States | |
| Table of Cases | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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