Criminal Law and Procedure, Cases and Materials

Donald A. Dripps, University of San Diego School of Law

Ronald N. Boyce

Rollin M. Perkins

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The 15th Edition continues the book's commitment to offering the most comprehensive, rigorous, and flexible materials on the American criminal process. With respect to the substantive criminal law, the new edition includes:

• Full case treatment of new cases from the Supreme Court, including City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson, 144 S.Ct. 2202 (2024) (rejecting an Eighth Amendment challenge to an ordinance prohibiting sleeping in public), Ruan v. United States, 597 U.S. 450 (2022) (requiring proof of scienter to convict a doctor of felony drug trafficking), and Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 U.S. 83 (2020) (holding that the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates not just the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial, but also the requirement that the jury be unanimous to convict), together with a much-condensed presentation of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 597 U.S. 215 (2022) (Roe is overruled; what now about Lawrence?);
• Important new lower courts cases on the void-for-vagueness doctrine, the Second Amendment, homicide, and insanity;
• An update to the causation section;
• The addition, to Chapter 11, of a brief new Section 6 on Executive Clemency;
• A focus on cases that reflect topical issues, including homelessness, gun rights, reproductive rights, drug sales causing death, and parental liability for mass shootings by their minor children;
• A pervasive effort to condense material, either by cutting some material from cases as they appeared in the Fourteenth Edition, or substituting newer and shorter cases for older and longer ones.

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