Criminal Procedure: Constitutional Limitations in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)

Israel, Jerold H.,Lafave, Wayne R.

ISBN 10: 0314025901 / ISBN 13: 9780314025906

Published by West Group, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Criminal Procedure: Constitutional Limitations in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)
• Publisher: West Group
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0314025901
• ISBN 13: 9780314025906
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

A reliable source for an overall view of constitutional criminal procedure. Avoids the non-constitutional standards applied in each state and federally. Subjects covered include the constitutionalization of criminal procedure; arrest, search, and seizure; wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping; using secret agents; police interrogation and confessions; lineups and other pretrial identification procedures; exclusionary rules; right to counsel; and post-investigatory processes from bail to appellate review.

About the Author

B.S., L.L.B. & S.J.D. (1965) University of Wisconsin, Phi Beta Kappa and Order of the Coif. David C. Baum Professor of Law and Professor in the Center for Advanced Study, on faculty of University of Illinois since 1961. Member of Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the U.S. Has served as Chairman of the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Criminal Justice Programs, and as Reporter for the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, for the Uniform Rules of Criminal Procedure project of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, and for the Standards from Criminal Justice Project of the ABA. He has written extensively on criminal law and criminal procedure especially on the subjects of arrest, search & seizure. Author of "Search & Seizure" a three volume West Publication and Treatise on the Fourth Amendment. Authored and co-authored West publications consisting of two case-books and a hornbook on substantive criminal law and two casebooks, a hornbook and a practitioner's treatise on criminal procedure.