Publisher's Synopsis
In Criminal Procedures: Prosecution and Adjudication: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials, Fourth Edition, the highly respected author team of Marc L. Miller and Ronald F. Wright present a student-friendly, comprehensive survey of the laws and practices at work between the time a person is charged and the time the courts resolve the offender’s conviction and sentence.
In the Fourth Edition, the authors retain the vitality and contemporary approach of Criminal Procedures: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials with an updated selection of cases and statutes and expanded discussions of important topics.
Covering in detail the “bail-to-jail” portions of the criminal process, this casebook features:
- Extensive use of documents from multiple institutions including U.S. Supreme Court cases, state high court cases, state and federal statutes, rules of procedure, and prosecutorial policies.
- A real world perspective that focuses on high-volume issues of current importance to defendants, lawyers, courts, legislators, and the public.
- Interdisciplinary examination of the impact that different procedures have on the enforcers, lawyers, courts, communities, defendants, and victims.
- Frequent use of Problems that gives the instructor options for applying concepts and doctrines in realistic practice settings.
- The highly accessible authors provide valuable support for both students and teachers:
- The excellent TM retains chapter overviews, suggestions for pacing, teaching strategies, answers to questions posed in casebook problems, and sample syllabi
- A password-protected website for teachers provides an electronic version of the TM and teaching materials, including suggested examination materials.
- A separate website for students, www.crimpro.com, provides practice problems, topics to explore in further depth, sample exams, articles, and a virtual library of policies and other materials to illustrate casebook themes.
Integrating the casebook with the web site to provide additional materials, the Fourth Edition offers:
- An updated selection of cases and statutes.
- Expanded coverage of the impact of race on criminal adjudication and sentencing.
- Reorganized and expanded coverage of plea negotiations and guilty pleas.
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