Synopsis
This publication covers the law governing the criminal process, excluding sentencing. The first half of the book examines legal strictures on investigative techniques―search and seizure, interrogation, subpoenas, identification procedures and undercover work―and the second half discusses the adjudicatory process, from pretrial detention and the charging decision through preliminary hearings, discovery, plea bargaining, trial, appeal and habeas, as well as double jeopardy doctrine, right to counsel issues, and state constitutional law.
This book is popular among students, academics and lawyers for its concise and well-organized statements of the law, its trenchant analysis, and its attention to facts as well as legal doctrine. Each chapter ends with a summary of the law and a bibliography."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Professor Charles H. Whitebread is an alumnus of Princeton University and Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and is currently the George T. Pfleger Professor at the University of Southern California Law Center. He has written numerous books on Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, including the popular hornbook Criminal Procedure by Foundation Press.
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