Criminal Procedure: Constitution and Society - Hardcover

Zalman, Marvin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0130892785 ISBN 13: 9780130892782

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2001

Synopsis

For courses in Criminal Procedure.

 

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. Important cases are highlighted using a case and comment approach, and this edition includes all new legal puzzles and updated Supreme Court biographies. With an emphasis on law and society, it provides essential information about the law of constitutional criminal procedure, the most meaningful Supreme Court cases, and discussion of criminal procedure in its social, political, and historical contexts

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Using a blend of text and edited cases, "CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 6/e "provides up-to-date coverage of constitutional criminal procedure. Important cases are highlighted using a case and comment approach-complete with analysis, justice quotes, and dissenting opinions. This edition includes 25 important new Supreme Court cases and 70 new citations to Supreme Court decisions. Each chapter is updated to reflect the most recent criminal procedure and new legal puzzles appear in every chapter. With an emphasis on law and society, it provides essential information about the law of constitutional criminal procedure, its social, political, and historical contexts, and the most meaningful Supreme Court cases.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0130892785
• ISBN 13: 9780130892782
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3