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This is a casebook for all introductory courses in criminal procedure law (including both investigation and adjudication courses, as well as comprehensive and survey courses). The casebook focuses primarily on constitutional criminal procedure law, but also covers relevant statutes and court rules. The casebook is deliberately challenging—it is designed for teachers who want to explore deeply not only the contemporary state of the law, but also its historical and theoretical foundations. The casebook incorporates a particular emphasis on empirical knowledge about the real-world impacts of law-in-action; the significance of race and class; the close relationship between criminal procedure law and substantive criminal law; the cold reality that hard choices sometimes must be made in a world of limited criminal justice resources; and, finally, the recognition that criminal procedure law always should strive to achieve both fairness to the accused and justice for society as a whole.

New to the Sixth Edition:

• New important judicial decisions and statutory and rule changes since the Sixth Edition
• New “roadmap” introductions to each set of Notes and Questions, providing guidance to both students and faculty
• Updated and expanded treatment of police use of force
• Updated treatment of ineffective assistance in plea bargaining
• A reorganized and substantially revised discussion of the Crawford doctrine
• Updated notes on contemporary issues such as racial disparity in policing, encryption, false confessions, progressive prosecutors, cash bail, and cybercrimes

Benefits for instructors and students:

• A rigorous and challenging criminal procedure casebook with presentation and careful editing
• Sophisticated cases-and-notes book by a prestigious author team that incorporates the latest and most highly respected developments in legal scholarship in the field of criminal procedure law
• Appropriate balance of explanatory text and secondary material
• Thematic organization, structured around important main themes
• Extensive revisions and updates
• The only criminal procedure casebook on the market today that enables students to understand completely the roots of the modern controversy over privacy and security in a digital age