Modern Criminal Procedure: Cases, Comments and Questions Book

1. An Overview of the Criminal Justice Process

• 2. The Nature and Scope of Fourteenth Amendment Due Process; Retroactivity; The Federal "Supervisory Power"; State Rights Protections
• 3. The Right to Counsel, Transcripts and Other Aids; Poverty, Equality and the Adversary System
• 4. Some General Reflections on the Police, the Courts and the Criminal Process
• 5. Arrest, Search and Seizure
• 6. Wiretapping, Electronic Eavesdropping, the Use of Secret Agents to Obtain Incriminating Statements, and the Fourth Amendment
• 7. Police "Encouragement" and the Defense of Entrapment
• 8. Police Interrogation and Confessions
• 9. Lineups, Showups and Other Pre-Trial Identification Procedures
• 10. Grand Jury Investigations
• 11. The Scope of the Exclusionary Rules
• 12. Pretrial Release
• 13. The Decision Whether to Prosecute
• 14. The Preliminary Hearing
• 15. Grand Jury Review
• 16. The Charging Instrument
• 17. The Location of the Prosecution
• 18. The Scope of the Prosecution: Joinder and Severance of Offenses and Defendants
• 19. The Right to a "Speedy Trial" - And to "Speedy Disposition" At Other Steps in the Criminal Process
• 20. The Assistance of Counsel
• 21. Discovery and Disclosure
• 22. Coerced, Induced and Negotiated Guilty Pleas; Professional Responsibility
• 23. Trial by Jury
• 24. "Trial by Newspaper" - And Television
• 25. The Criminal Trial
• 26. Reprosecution and the Ban Against Double Jeopardy
• 27. Sentencing
• 28. Appeal
• 29. Post-Conviction Review: Federal Habeas Corpus