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Adjudicative Criminal Procedure and Racial Injustice, First Edition

Authors
  • James C. Rehnquist
  • Tracey Maclin
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Table of contents
Preface

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Adjudicative Criminal Procedure and Racial Injustice brings a sustained emphasis on race to the traditional content of criminal procedure. Rather than a wholesale revision of the standard criminal procedure fare, it amply covers all the familiar subject matter areas while integrating into those topics the roles that racial prejudice and racial disparities have played and continue to play in the criminal justice system.

The Adjudicative volume, from Chapters I, II, and VIII-XVI of Rehnquist/Maclin’s Criminal Procedure and Racial Injustice, looks closely at the role that race has played in the makeup of juries in criminal trials, including defense counsel’s ability to pursue voir dire questioning of potential jurors to screen for racial bias; the historical use by prosecutors of peremptory challenges to eliminate Black potential jurors, and the attempt to eliminate that practice by the Supreme Court in Batson v. Kentucky; and the perils of cross-race eyewitness identification in criminal trials.

A secondary focus of the book is lawyering—the decisions and tactics of the prosecutors and defense lawyers that undergird the cases in the book. To that end, the plentiful Notes and Questions following the cases provoke thought and discussion not only on the relevant legal doctrine and the racial implications of the doctrine, but also on the choices made by the prosecutors and defense counsel.

Benefits for instructors and students:
  • Flexible organization
  • Interesting, timely cases
  • Sophisticated, robust notes and questions following each case
  • Adjudicative chapters:
    • The Right to Counsel and Criminal Defense—including claims for ineffective assistance of counsel and the chronic underfunding of public indigent defense
    • The Prosecution Function—the enormous discretion, power and ethical responsibilities of that office
    • Pleas and Plea Bargaining—which account for the resolution of over 95% of criminal cases without a trial or any substantial judicial involvement
    • The Right to a Jury Trial—including a glimpse at the surprising results generated by an “originalist” perspective on the right
    • Eyewitness Identification—the fallibility of which has become even clearer in the era of demonstrably wrongful convictions
    • Incarceration—including a look at bail/pretrial detention and the racially unequal impacts of the death penalty and the legislative crack/cocaine disparity
    • Two unconventional chapters—Discriminatory Enforcement, which considers, among other things, the high hurdles in making such claims; and The Department of Justice and the Prosecution of Civil Rights Crimes, which broadly examines DOJ enforcement policies from Reconstruction through notable police violence cases of the 21st century
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Table of Contents
Summary of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments


CHAPTER I         Introductory Principles
CHAPTER II        The Roots of Modern Constitutional Criminal Procedure: The Supreme Court, Race, and the Post-Bellum South
CHAPTER VIII     Right to Counsel and the Defense Function
CHAPTER IX       The Prosecution Function
CHAPTER X        The Department of Justice and the Prosecution of Civil Rights Crimes
CHAPTER XI       Pleas and Plea Bargaining
CHAPTER XII      Discriminatory Enforcement  
CHAPTER XIII     The Jury I: Scope of the Right and Other Issues  
CHAPTER XIV     Eyewitness Identification  
CHAPTER XV      The Jury II: Race and Juries  
CHAPTER XVI     Incarceration: Bail, Pretrial Detention, and Sentencing  

Table of Cases  
Index

 
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About the authors
James C. Rehnquist

Jim Rehnquist is a Visiting Professor of Practice at New England School of Law, where he is currently teaching Evidence and Criminal Defense Ethics. Before that he was a partner at Goodwin Procter, specializing in white collar defense and civil litigation, and a federal prosecutor in Boston.

At Goodwin he hosted a podcast called Sound Bar on various white collar defense topics. He also taught a seminar on Federal Criminal Justice as an adjunct professor at Boston University School of Law.

He is a graduate of Boston University School of law and Amherst College. He clerked on the First Circuit for Hon. Levin Campbell.

Tracey Maclin

Tracey Maclin is Professor of Law and Raymond & Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar Chair. Prior to joining the University of Florida faculty, he was a professor of law and Joseph Lipsitt Faculty Research Scholar at Boston University School of Law. He has also taught at Cornell Law School, Harvard Law School and the University of Kentucky College of Law. Before entering law teaching, Professor Maclin served as a law clerk to Judge Boyce F. Martin, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and worked at Cahill, Gordon & Reindel.

Professor Maclin teaches courses in Constitutional Law, Constitutional Criminal Procedure, and the Fifth Amendment’s Self-Incrimination Clause. He also teaches a seminar on the Supreme Court’s cases in criminal procedure, criminal law, habeas corpus and the death penalty. His scholarship focuses on the Fourth Amendment and the Self-Incrimination Clause of the Fifth Amendment. He has published many law review articles and book chapters on constitutional criminal procedure topics. He is the author of The Supreme Court and the Fourth Amendment’s Exclusionary Rule (Oxford University Press 2013). In addition to his legal scholarship, Professor Maclin has authored over a dozen amicus curiae briefs and served as counsel of record for the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Cato Institute in Fourth Amendment cases in the United States Supreme Court.

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Edition
First Edition
Publication date
2024-09-15
Copyright Year
2024
Pages
832
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Subject
Criminal Procedure
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