For courses in Criminal Procedure. Using a blend of text and edited cases, this book provides up-to-date coverage of constitutional criminal procedure. It covers all relevant Fourth Amendment topics, incorporation, confessions, right to counsel, identification and entrapment, and separate chapters on the pre-trial and trial process. Important cases are highlighted using a case and comment approach, and this edition includes all new legal puzzles and updated Supreme Court biographies. With an emphasis on law and society, it provides essential information about the law of constitutional criminal procedure, the most meaningful Supreme Court cases, and discussion of criminal procedure in its social, political, and historical contexts. Hallmark Features A blend of text and edited cases- gives students the best of both worlds. Uses a format that combines a casebook and information-packed text. Summarizes important legal cases plus important concepts and analysis.

Case and Comment sections- provide a framework for analyzing and understanding important Supreme Court cases. Combines edited cases along with running comments and guides students through Supreme Court cases. Includes the most important cases for instructors who want to follow the case method and provides students with the tools needed to read and brief cases independently. How to Read and Understand Cases appendix- appears after Chapter 1. Gives students basic and more advanced pointers on understanding how to read cases. Criminal Procedure in a Time of Terror sections- highlight criminal procedure law in the efforts to investigate and prevent terrorist activities. Gives students an inside look at legal issues surrounding the war on terror such as: torture and interrogation, extraterritoriality, extraordinary rendition, arrests of suspected aliens and citizens in the United States, and the Guantanamo detainee cases. Law in Society sections- appear at the end of each chapter.

Helps students move beyond an understanding of the technicalities of law to an understanding of how law fits into society. Examines topics such as: police perjury, mandatory domestic violence arrest, wrongful convictions, effect of the exclusionary rule, inadequate provision of counsel and prosecutorial misconduct. Supreme Court Justice biographies- follow each chapter highlight. Provides a brief biographical sketch of each Supreme Court justice. Shows students each judge's policy, philosophies and jurisprudential positions so that they can better understand the law. Summary Voting Scorecard- is supplied for selected Supreme Court justices in the text appendix. Shows readers at-a-glance the typical voting style of selected justices.