Criminal Procedure: Adjudication

Comprehensive and current, the casebook addresses:

- policing materials

- due process and the right to counsel

- prosecutorial charging decisions

- grand juries

- plea bargaining and sentencing, topics often overlooked in other books but crucial to an understanding of criminal procedure

Criminal Procedure: Investigation and Right to Counsel gives both students and instructors what they need:

- detailed coverage of the Fourth Amendment

- excellent cases, selected and edited to portray the key issues

- outstanding authorship from a team of recognized leaders who blend a wide range of backgrounds and expertise

- law and society approach, grounded in empirical research and the true impact of court decisions

- thoughtful, thematic organization

- well-written notes that challenge students to think about the ideas and questions raised

- appropriate balance of explanatory text and secondary material,

Accommodating students and courses focused on adjudication--including pretrial, trial, sentencing, and appellate issues--this casebook comprises the first three chapters and the last ten chapters of Comprehensive Criminal Procedure, 3rd ed. The volume is smaller and less expensive than the "mother" text, leaving out material dealing with criminal investigations, a subject generally taught in a separate course. The five authors are affiliated with five institutions: Ronald Jay Allen (Northwestern U.), William J. Stuntz (Harvard U.), Joseph L. Hoffmann (Indiana U.), Debra A. Livingston (she's a US circuit judge and affiliated with Columbia U.), and Andrew D. Leipold (U. of Illinois). Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)