Mastering Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Stage (Volume 1) (Mastering Series)

Mastering Criminal Procedure, Volume 1: The Investigative Stage provides a concise treatment of the relevant federal constitutional doctrines that guide and constrain interactions between the police and individuals in the investigation of criminal conduct. The book provides an overview of the criminal process and the constitutional sources of the criminal procedure rules, including different approaches to constitutional interpretation. The Second Edition updates the analysis with the latest Supreme Court decisions.

The focus is on the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments as they relate to the warrant requirement for searches, exceptions that allow warrantless searches, the seizure of evidence and individuals, and the interrogation of suspects. The book covers the primary topics that arise in the typical law school criminal procedure course, including when the warrant requirement applies, the process for obtaining a valid warrant, the operation of the exclusionary rule, the range of exceptions to the warrant requirement, and arrests and other seizures of individuals and resultant searches of the person.

The authors have experience as prosecutors and defense counsel, and have written extensively in the fields of criminal law, criminal procedure, and evidence.

The late Peter Henning was a Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law School.

The late Andrew Taslitz was a Professor of Law at the American University Washington College of Law.

Margaret Paris is a Professor Emerita of Law at University of Oregon School of Law.

Cynthia Jones is an Associate Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law.

Ellen Podgor is the Gary R. Trombley Family White-Collar Crime Research Professor & Professor of Law Stetson University College of Law.