Criminal procedure : principles, policies, and perspectives - Dressler, Joshua; Thomas, George C. (George Conner), 1947- (St. Paul, MN : West, 2010)
The criminal process : failures, choices, and legitimacy -- Fourth Amendment : an overview -- Passing the threshold of the Fourth Amendment -- The substance of the Fourth Amendment -- Remedies for Fourth Amendment violations -- Confessions : the voluntariness requirement -- Police interrogation : the self-incrimination clause -- Police interrogation : the Sixth Amendment right to counsel -- Entrapment -- Eyewitness identification procedures -- Pretrial release -- Case screening -- Preparing for adjudication -- The role of defense counsel -- Plea bargaining and guilty pleas -- The trial process -- Sentencing -- Double jeopardy -- Post-trial process : correcting erroneous verdicts.
Kept up to date by a supplement which also supplements Criminal procedure : investigating crime and Criminal procedure : prosecuting crime.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
committed to retain
Keywords: Criminal procedure -- United States -- Cases; Casebooks (Law)