Basic criminal procedure: Cases, comments, and questions (American casebook series) - Softcover

Yale Kamisar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0314696571 ISBN 13: 9780314696571

Publisher: West Pub. Co, 1986

Synopsis

Also covers due process, retroactivity, the federal "supervisory power," and state rights protection. Touches on the right to counsel, transcripts, and other aids such as poverty, equality, and the adversary system. Includes reflections on the police, courts, and the criminal process. Provides insight into arrest, search and seizure, wiretapping, electronic eavesdropping, the use of secret agents to obtain incriminating statements, and the Fourth Amendment.

About this title

About the Author

Nancy J. King is professor of law and associate dean for Research and Faculty Development at Vanderbilt University Law School. She has served on the Sixth Circuit Advisory Committee on Rules since 1996 and has participated in numerous activities and presentations regarding criminal procedure and jury selection issues in particular. She also served on the Tennessee Judicial Evaluations Guidelines Commission in 1994 and 1995. Professor King co-authored Criminal Procedure 2d, Modern Criminal Procedure, Advanced Criminal Procedure (The Adversary System), Cases, Comments and Questions 9th, and Basic Criminal Procedure (Police Practices), Cases, Comments and Questions 9th. She is also the author of a variety of law review articles dealing with juror selection and has lectured extensively in these areas as well.

Edition details

• Publisher: West Pub. Co
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0314696571
• ISBN 13: 9780314696571
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 860