Criminal Procedures: Prosecution and Adjudication: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials - Hardcover

Miller, Marc

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0735569819 ISBN 13: 9780735569812

Publisher: Aspen Publishers

Synopsis

In Criminal Procedures: Prosecution and Adjudication: Cases,
Statutes, and Executive Materials, Fourth Edition, the highly
respected author team of Marc L. Miller and Ronald F. Wright present a
student-friendly, comprehensive survey of the laws and practices at work
between the time a person is charged and the time the courts resolve the
offender's conviction and sentence.

In the Fourth Edition, the authors retain the vitality and contemporary
approach of Criminal Procedures: Cases, Statutes, and Executive
Materials with an updated selection of cases and statutes and
expanded discussions of important topics.

Covering in detail the "bail-to-jail" portions of the criminal
process, this casebook features:

Extensive use of documents from multiple institutions including
U.S. Supreme Court cases, state high court cases, state and federal
statutes, rules of procedure, and prosecutorial policies.
A real world perspective that focuses on high-volume issues of
current importance to defendants, lawyers, courts, legislators, and
the public.
Interdisciplinary examination of the impact that different
procedures have on the enforcers, lawyers, courts, communities,
defendants, and victims.
Frequent use of Problems that gives the instructor options for
applying concepts and doctrines in realistic practice settings.

Integrating the casebook with the web site to provide additional
materials, the Fourth Edition offers:

An updated selection of cases and statutes.



Expanded coverage of the impact of race on criminal
adjudication and sentencing.



Reorganized and expanded coverage of plea negotiations and guilty
pleas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Aspen Publishers
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0735569819
• ISBN 13: 9780735569812
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 874