Criminal Procedure: Investigation

ISBN: 0735577862

Author: Erwin Chemerinsky

Condition: Used

Combining first-hand knowledge of the criminal procedure system with stellar constitutional law scholarship, Levenson and Chemerinsky now offer a free-standing and student-friendly casebook that focuses on the investigation phase of criminal procedure.Written in the eminently articulate style that characterizes Chemerinsky s Constitutional Law casebook, Criminal Procedure: Investigation offers:straightforward essays by the authors that illuminate principal and minor casesa first-chapter overview of criminal procedure that looks atthe roles of the participantthe progression of a case through the systemkey procedural rules and governing principlesthe Incorporation Doctrinethe test for determining when new procedural rules should be applied retroactivelya consistent and systematic chapter structure thatintroduces the topicdiscusses the history and development of the lawcites examples from recent cases where the key issues have been raisedoffers an analytic critique of the resolution of the issuechronologically organized chaptertopics that mirror the sequential ordering of the investigation processsamples of legal pleadings that exemplify attorneys actual argumentsa panoramic perspective on practice as conveyed through the eyes of prosecutors, defense counsel, judges, police, and victimsSupreme Court cases from the 2006-2007 terma detailed Teacher s Manual that offers questions and answers to support teaching and fuel class discussionan expanded teaching package that includes PowerPoint slides, a DVD that presents the facts and backgrounds of several key cases, and an author websiteSure, it is a pleasure to teach and to read, but you could decide to adopt it simply for the wealth of experience and expertise that Chemerinsky and Levenson bring to their subject.