Study Guides for 2L/3L Classes

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Online access available through West Academic. This Short and Happy Guide makes the law about police practices and criminal trial proceedings accessible and easy to remember. Learn the key points of search and seizure law, police interrogation, the right to counsel, the exclusionary rule, pretrial release, grand jury investigations, joinder, criminal discovery, plea bargaining, jury trials, pretrial publicity, double jeopardy, appeals, and post-conviction standards.

Online access available through West Academic. This product presents in checklist format the series of issues that must be understood in order to identify and resolve the range of legal issues presented in an examination question. Checklists are provided for all topics generally covered in the basic criminal procedure course.

Online access available through West Academic. Designed for use as supplemental reading in an advanced criminal procedure course on the post-investigation processing of a criminal case. Includes a clear, concise, and thorough narrative explanation of the issues involved in the prosecution and adjudication of a criminal case, from the decision to prosecute and pre-trial release through to sentencing, appeal and collateral attack. Ideal reference for students and practitioners.

Online access available through West Academic. Basic Criminal Procedure is a clear and comprehensive outline of the most important principles and issues taught in the basic Criminal Procedure law school course. It covers the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments, including Exceptions to the Warrant requirement, Remedies for 4th Amendment violations, the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination, Limits on Identification Evidence and the Right to Counsel. Basic Criminal Procedure also provides sample examination questions and answers.

Online access available through West Academic. This title analyzes the law governing all major steps in the criminal justice process, beginning with investigation and ending with post-appeal collateral attacks. All major themes are covered, with emphasis upon those basic issues deemed most significant in the case law and literature. Because of their special importance, leading Supreme Court opinions are given in-depth treatment.

Online access available through West Academic. This book walks step-by-step through the criminal adjudication process, from the post-arrest bail decision and the right to counsel through the post-trial direct appeal. It analyzes the main cases and statutes in each area, showing how the doctrine has developed and its current state. The book also places great emphasis on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, working through their text, explaining not only the law but the strategic issues that a lawyer might face.

Online access available through West Academic. This nutshell is intended for use by law students of constitutional criminal procedure. It is a succinct analysis of the constitutional standards of major current significance. This is not a text on criminal procedure, but rather about constitutional criminal procedure. It avoids describing the non-constitutional standards applied in each state and federally. The text provides the scope and highlights you need to excel in understanding this field. This will enable you to answer exam questions more quickly and accurately, and enhance your skills as an attorney.

Online access available through West Academic. This study aid will enhance understanding of criminal procedure and sharpen exam skills. There are three comprehensive sample examinations, containing 40 questions each. It contains answers that explain why one choice is correct and why the alternatives are wrong.

A favorite classroom prep tool of successful students that is often recommended by professors, the Examples & Explanations (E&E) series provides an alternative perspective to help you understand your casebook and in-class lectures. Each E&E offers hypothetical questions complemented by detailed explanations that allow you to test your knowledge of the topics in your courses and compare your own analysis. Here's why you need an E&E to help you study throughout the semester: Clear explanations of each class topic, in a conversational, funny style. Features hypotheticals similar to those presented in class, with corresponding analysis so you can use them during the semester to test your understanding, and again at exam time to help you review. It offers coverage that works with ALL the major casebooks, and suits any class on a given topic.

A favorite classroom prep tool of successful students that is often recommended by professors, the Examples & Explanations (E&E) series provides an alternative perspective to help you understand your casebook and in-class lectures. Each E&E offers hypothetical questions complemented by detailed explanations that allow you to test your knowledge of the topics in your courses and compare your own analysis. Here's why you need an E&E to help you study throughout the semester: Clear explanations of each class topic, in a conversational, funny style. Features hypotheticals similar to those presented in class, with corresponding analysis so you can use them during the semester to test your understanding, and again at exam time to help you review. It offers coverage that works with ALL the major casebooks, and suits any class on a given topic.

Online access available through West Academic. A criminal procedure outline that highlights all of the key criminal procedure decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court in an easy-to-read and easy-to-understand format that includes check lists, visual aids, and practice exam questions (and answers) -- both essay and short answer. Topics covered include: Fourth Amendment search and seizure (including arrests and other detentions); the exclusionary rule; confessions (including the rules established by Miranda v. Arizona and the Fifth Amendment privilege against compelled self-incrimination); and a discussion of trial rights (such as the right to a speedy trial, the right to trial by jury, and the right to counsel).

Online access available through West Academic. This title contains briefs for each major case in Dressler, Thomas, and Medwed's casebook on Criminal Procedure. These briefs will help you identify, understand, and absorb the core knowledge points from each case. They are followed by legal analysis, providing contextual background about each case, and connecting the case to the broader concepts developed throughout the casebook. This title also supplies case vocabulary, with definitions of new or unusual legal words found throughout the cases.

Online access available through West Academic. This title contains briefs for each major case in Kamisar, LaFave, Israel, King, Kerr, and Primus's casebook on Criminal Procedure. These briefs will help you identify, understand, and absorb the core knowledge points from each case. They are followed by legal analysis, providing contextual background about each case, and connecting the case to the broader concepts developed throughout the casebook. This title also supplies case vocabulary, with definitions of new or unusual legal words found throughout the cases.

Online access available through West Academic. This title contains briefs for each major case in Saltzburg, Capra, and Gray's casebook on Criminal Procedure. These briefs will help you identify, understand, and absorb the core knowledge points from each case. They are followed by legal analysis, providing contextual background about each case, and connecting the case to the broader concepts developed throughout the casebook. This title also supplies case vocabulary, with definitions of new or unusual legal words found throughout the cases.

Online access available through West Academic. This audio lecture covers subject matter jurisdiction, personal jurisdiction, long arm statutes, and constitutional limitations. It also discusses in rem and quasi in rem jurisdiction, service of process, venue, transfer, forum non conviens, removal, waiver, governing law, pleadings, and joinder of claims. Also included are permissive and compulsory joinder of parties, counterclaims and cross-claims, ancillary jurisdiction, impleader, class actions, discovery, pretrial adjudication, summary judgment trial, post trial motions, appeals, res judicata, and collateral estoppel. The lecture references all the newly restyled Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

Online access available through West Academic. Initial Appearance and the Appointment of Counsel (7:25) -- Bail and Preventive Detention (9:10) -- The Preliminary Hearing (9:44) -- Grand Jury Investigative Power (11:38) -- Grand Jury Indictment (9:15) -- Discovery and Brady Material (8:05) -- Electronically Stored Information (7:03) -- Compulsory Process and the Duty to Preserve Evidence (8:51) -- The Fifth Amendement Privilege Against Self-Incrimination in the Pretrial Phase (6:58) -- Discriminatory Prosecution (7:25) -- Judicial and Prosecutorial Vindictiveness (8:57) -- Requirements for a Valid Charging Document (8:00) -- Variances and Amending the Indictment (9:45) -- Venue (11:22) -- Joinder of Charges and Defendants (6:40) -- Speedy Trial and Pre-Charge Delay (9:19) -- Scope of the Right to Counsel (10:02) -- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel 1 (10:02) -- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel 2 (11:04) -- Conflicts of Interest (9:05) -- Counsel of Choice, Disqualification, and Withdrawal on Appeal (10:58) -- The Right to Self-Representation (7:11) -- Plea Bargaining - The Art of the Deal (9:57) -- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel in Plea Bargaining (9:25) -- The Mechanics of the Jury Trial Right (13:51) -- Jury Voir Dire (6:10) -- Jury Selection: The Fair Cross-Section Requirement (7:15) -- Jury Selection: Peremptory Challenges and Batson v. Kentucky (10:05) -- Defendant's Right to Be Present (8:44) -- Confrontation Clause and Defendant Statements under Bruton v. United States (8:07) -- The Confrontation Clause: Crawford v. Washington and Its Progeny (8:39) -- Defendant's Right to Testify and Cross-Examine Witnesses (10:59) -- Challenging the Jury Verdict (6:15) -- Entrapment and Outrageous Government Conduct Defenses (7:44) -- Double Jeopardy and the "Same Offense": The Blockburger Test (10:21) -- Double Jeopardy and Collateral Estoppel (7:00) -- Double Jeopardy and Mistrials (10:09) -- Double Jeopardy and Retrials (9:30) -- Double Jeopardy and Dual Sovereignty (8:44) -- Sufficiency of the Evidence and Criminal Appeals (9:27) -- Harmless and Plain Error (11:04) -- Habeus Corpus (7:32).

Online access available through West Academic. A 4th Amendment Framework (4:39) -- What is a "search"? (5:38) -- Open Fields and Curtilage (5:31) -- Automobile Searches (6:37) -- Stop and Frisk: The Terry Doctrine (6:15) -- Maryland v. Buie: Sweeps, Scans and Searches (4:26) -- Limits and Exceptions to the Exclusionary Rule (7:16) -- When Does Miranda Apply? (3:39) -- Miranda: Waiver and Invocation (7:05) -- 6th Amendment vs. Miranda (6:07).

Online access available through West Academic. This book gives you everything you need to know about basic criminal procedure principles, presented in a no-nonsense fashion. It includes references to recent, relevant decisions handed down by the United States Supreme Court. In addition, Principles of Criminal Procedure contains helpful study devices such as "focal points" at the beginning of each chapter, and "points to remember" at the end of each section. This is the only study aid you will need to help you understand basic criminal procedure principles in U.S. law.

Online access available through West Academic. For law students of constitutional criminal procedure, Principles of Investigative Criminal Procedure will assist them in learning about Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment issues associated with criminal investigations. This volume is an effort to provide a comprehensive, though "Concise", treatise for law students and attorneys. The materials discuss and analyze the criminal procedure jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court, with extensive use of primary source material that affects judges, prosecutors, defense counsel, and criminal defendants. Discussions relate to breakthrough decisions like Miranda v. Arizona, as well as cases adding a nuance to topics already well-developed in prior Court decisions.

Online access available through the Lexis Digital Library. This book and its companion, Q&A: Criminal Procedure -- Prosecution and Adjudication, will assist readers' learning and exam preparation in criminal procedure courses and for the bar exam. This volume covers arrest, search and seizure, interrogation, identification, suppression issues, and entrapment.

Online access available through the Lexis Digital Library. The book assists learning and exam preparation for the Criminal Procedure--Prosecution and Adjudication (a.k.a. "bail-to-jail") course and the bar exam. Coverage includes the broad gamut of issues concerning the criminal adjudication process, including prosecutorial discretion, bail, initial appearance, preliminary hearing, grand jury, indictment and information, the right to counsel and the effective assistance of counsel, plea bargaining, joinder and severance, motion practice, discovery, time limitations, jurisdiction and venue, jury trials, double jeopardy, sentencing (including the death penalty), and post-conviction remedies.

Online access available through West Academic. This product is a short, clear, concise, and substantive outline. It is designed to make the study of criminal procedure clear and convenient and to help students prepare for their law school exams. The main text is an outline of the substantive content. The concise format provides a comprehensive overview, allowing students to review the subject quickly prior to final exams.

Online access available through West Academic. This audio lecture covers the most important issues raised in a constitutional criminal procedure course relating to police practices. The lecture focuses on the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments and covers many issues, such as the meanings of the Fourth Amendment terms “search,” “seizure,” and “probable cause,” analysis of the exceptions to the search warrant requirement, and the doctrines of standing and the exclusionary rule. The lecture also covers police interrogation law as covered by the due process, self-incrimination, and right to counsel provisions of the Constitution, as well as the landmark Miranda v. Arizona decision.

Online access available through the Lexis Digital Library. Understanding Criminal Procedure is primarily designed for law students and is organized and written so that both students and professors can use it with confidence to better prepare for courses and improve classroom dialogue. The two-volume format allows you to purchase one or both volumes based on the topics covered in your course. Already cited extensively in scholarly literature and judicial opinions, scholars, practicing lawyers, and courts will also find the expanded content of this newest edition indispensable. Inside you'll find extensive coverage of the most important United States Supreme Court cases and discussion of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, federal statutes, and lower federal and state court cases. Overarching policy issues are considered extensively, and some of the hottest debates in the field are considered with high-quality and objective analysis.