Criminal Procedure

Book Description:
Erwin Chemerinsky and Laurie L. Levenson bring to this casebook a wealth of experience as practicing attorneys, law professors, and authors. Written in the approachable style that characterizes Chemerinsky s Constitutional Law casebook, Criminal Procedure guides students to an understanding of the law through tightly edited cases and a dynamic and innovative pedagogy.Criminal Procedure offers:eloquent and substantive writing that draws on deep wells of experience and scholarshipa dynamic and innovative pedagogy that includes tightly edited cases, author-written essays, legal pleadings that argue the issues, and the perspectives of prosecutors, defense counsel, judges, police, and victimsa chronological organization that walks the student through the criminal justice process, from the investigation to habeas corpusa consistently systematic treatment of topics in every chapter:an introduction to the underpinning issues of the lawdiscussion of the history and development of the law in response to those issuesexamples of recent or seminal cases that have shaped the lawanalysis of the success or failure of the law to adequately remedy the issue that gave rise to its inceptionSupreme Court cases through October Term 2006, along with many familiar chestnutsa detailed Teacher s Manual that includes questions and answers for classroom discussiona complete teaching package that includes PowerPoint slides, a DVD that presents the facts and backgrounds of several key cases, and a websiteDynamic and innovative, Criminal Procedure shows through clear and succinct text, tightly edited cases, legal pleadings, and the perspectives of participants and players a complete picture of the criminal procedure system.