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Criminal Procedure, Fourth Edition

Authors
  • Erwin Chemerinsky
  • Laurie L. Levenson
Series / Aspen Casebook Series
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Written in a student-friendly manner, the fourth edition of Criminal Procedure eschews excessive reliance on rhetorical questions and law review excerpts in favor of comprehensive exploration of black letter law and current policy issues. Authored by a pair of well-respected criminal and constitutional law scholars, Criminal Procedure utilizes a chronological approach that guides students through criminal procedure doctrine from rules governing law enforcement investigation to doctrine concerning habeas corpus relief. In addition to presenting the perspectives from various stakeholders (e.g. defense attorneys, judges, prosecutors, and victims), the authors take care to provide students with useful, practice-oriented materials, including pleadings and motions papers. Criminal Procedure not only employs a systemic approach that takes students through each step of criminal adjudication, but also introduces issues at the forefront of modern criminal procedure debates.

New to the Fourth Edition:

  • The Fourth Editionhas been thoroughly updated to provide analysis of important, recent decisions in the area of Criminal Procedure, including several decisions from the Supreme Court’s most recent terms and discussion of policy issues at the forefront of criminal law.
  • Changes in Investigations chapters:
    • New sections on excessive police force and on damage remedies for Fourth Amendment violations
    • New cases, including Carpenter v. United States (application of the Fourth Amendment to cellular location information); Torres v. Madrid (what is a seizure); Virginia v. Collins (automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment); United States v. Byrd (exclusionary rule case about the ability of an unauthorized driver of a rental car to challenge a police search); Kansas v. Glover (reasonable suspicion for a car stop); and additional cases (yet to be decided)
  • Changes in Adjudication chapters:
    • New cases, including McCoy v. Louisiana (Sixth Amendment right to counsel); Ramos v. Louisiana (trial by jury); Flowers v. Mississippi (jury composition and selection); Jones v. Mississippi (sentencing); Bucklew v. Precythe (the death penalty); and Gamble v. United States (the dual sovereignty doctrine in double jeopardy)

Professors and students will benefit from:

  • Straightforward writing style and dynamic text
    • Clear and not cluttered with law reviews excerpts
    • Relies on cases and author essays rather than excerpts and rhetoric questions
    • Presents thoughtfully edited principal and note cases
  • Intuitive organization and chronological presentation
    • Presents topics in easy-to-understand approach from investigation to prosecution to post-conviction relief
    • Approachable organization based on common progression through criminal justice system
  • Systematic and cohesive presentation of topics
    • Explores underlying policy before heading into doctrinal specifics
  • Practice-oriented features
    • Discussion of important, modern criminal procedure issues
    • Useful examples for future and current criminal law practitioners
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About the authors
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean
Berkeley Law School

Erwin Chemerinsky became the 13th Dean of Berkeley Law on July 1, 2017, when he joined the faculty as the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law. Prior to assuming this position, from 2008-2017, he was the founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at University of California, Irvine School of Law. Before that, he was the Alston and Bird Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University from 2004-2008, and from 1983-2004 was a professor at the University of Southern California Law School, including as the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, and Political Science. From 1980-1983, he was an assistant professor at DePaul College of Law.

He is the author of sixteen books, including leading casebooks and treatises about constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction. His most recent books are Worse than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism (September 2022) and Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights (2021). He is also the author of more than 200 law review articles.

He is a contributing writer for the Opinion section of the Los Angeles Times and writes regular columns for the Sacramento Bee, the ABA Journal, and the Daily Journal, and frequent op-eds in newspapers across the country. He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the United States Supreme Court.

In 2016, he was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2017, National Jurist magazine again named Dean Chemerinsky as the most influential person in legal education in the United States. In 2022, he was the President of the Association of American Law Schools.

He received his B.S. at Northwestern University and his J.D. at Harvard Law School.

Laurie L. Levenson
Loyola

Laurie Levenson is a Professor of Law, William M. Rains Fellow and Director of the Center for Ethical Advocacy at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. While in law school, Laurie Levenson was chief articles editor of the UCLA Law Review. After graduation, she served as law clerk to the Honorable James Hunter III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In 1981, she was appointed assistant United States Attorney, Criminal Section, in Los Angeles, where she was a trial and appellate lawyer for eight years and attained the position of senior trial attorney and assistant division chief. Levenson was a member of the adjunct faculty of Southwestern University Law School from 1982-89. She joined the Loyola faculty in 1989 and served as Loyola's associate dean for academic affairs from 1996-99.

Product Information
Edition
Fourth Edition
Publication date
2021-12-03
Copyright Year
2022
Pages
1536
Connected eBook with Study Center + Hardcover
9781543846058
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9781543850802
Subject
Criminal Procedure
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