Criminal Procedure: Law and Practice [Hardcover]

Packed with examples from real-world situations faced by today's law enforcement professionals, CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: LAW AND PRACTICE, 10th Edition gives you a practical and authoritative look at the most current guidelines in criminal procedure. Comprehensive and accurate without bogging you down in unnecessary details, the text includes cutting-edge coverage of the law as it relates to arrests, searches and seizures, vehicle stops, use of force, interrogations, and line-ups. It also discusses current topics such as racial profiling, DNA evidence, plea bargaining, seizures of text/email messages, and many others. Interesting case briefs, sample police forms, hypothetical cases, and coverage of the most recent Supreme Court rulings keep the text as relevant as ever. Its clear, reader-friendly presentation makes law enforcement concepts easy to understand and apply. In a step by step manner this textbook presents critical Criminal Justice concepts and issues that must be understood by any student wishing to understand the driving forces within all Criminal Justice professions. The foundation is laid well and then built upon with topics and concepts of increasing complexity. The three major strengths of this text are its easy readability, its comprehensive coverage of the material, and the end-of-chapter summaries and questions. 1. The Court System, Sources of Rights, and Fundamental Principles. 2. Overview of the Criminal Justice Process. 3. Probable Cause and Reasonable Suspicion. 4. The Exclusionary Rule. 5. Stop and Frisk and Stationhouse Detention. 6. Arrests and Use of Force. 7. Searches and Seizures of Things. 8. Motor Vehicle Stops, Searches, and Inventories. 9. Plain View, Open Fields, Abandonment, and Border Searches. 10. Lineups and Other Means of Pretrial Identification. 11. Confessions and Admissions: Miranda v. Arizona. 12. Basic Constitutional Rights of the Accused during Trial. 13. Sentencing, the Death Penalty, and Other Forms of Punishment. 14. Legalls6