Criminal Procedure : Constitutional Limitations in a Nutshell - Softcover

Israel, Jerold; Lafave, Wayne R.

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9780314256706: Criminal Procedure : Constitutional Limitations in a Nutshell

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ISBN 10: 0314256709 ISBN 13: 9780314256706

Publisher: West Group, 2001

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Intended for use by law students of criminal procedure. It is a succinct analysis of the constitutional standards of major current significance. This is not a text on criminal procedure, but rather about constitutional criminal procedure. It avoids describing the non-constitutional standards applied in each state and federally. The text provides the scope and highlights you need to excel in understanding this field. This will enable you to answer exam questions more quickly and accurately, and enhance your skills as an attorney.

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Is the author and a professor of Criminal Law and Procedure. Mr. Israel has authored Kerper's Introduction to the Criminal Justice System, Modern Criminal Procedure (with Kamisar and LaFave), 1980; and, Criminal Procedure in a Nutshell (with LaFave). Currently teaching at the University of Michigan, Professor Israel has last taught at the University of Florida, and Stanford University. Mr. Israel graduated from Yale Law School in 1959, Order of the Coif, and clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart form 1959-1961. He has served in Michigan as a member of the Governor's Commission on Criminal Investigation, as a reporter for the Commission on Uniform State Laws, and on the Committee to Revise Uniform Rules of Criminal Procedure.

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