This casebook provides a detailed presentation of issues created by constitutional rules affecting law enforcement conduct and the exclusionary remedy for violations of those rules. It discusses such topics as arrests and stops of suspects for investigation, search and arrest warrants, permissible warrantless searches, interrogation practices, and lineups and other procedures related to eyewitness identification testimony.


Imprint: Foundation Press
Series: University Casebook Series
Publication Date: 03/17/2017

George E. Dix, University of Texas School of Law

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This new edition follows the same organization and coverage of the last edition, except that it omits the brief subchapter on border-related law enforcement activity from the last edition to make room for new and more generally-applicable material. Cases and textual discussions from the supplement to the last edition are integrated into the casebook itself. Some presentation of earlier decisions has been reduced. New York v. Belton, for example, has been omitted as adequately presented in an expanded version of Arizona v. Gant. The thrusts of case law since the last edition dictated an explanation of some areas of coverage, such as traffic stops (now including Rodriguez v. U.S.), searches incident arrest (now including Riley v. California), and exigent circumstances searches (now including Missouri v. McNeely). The new edition retains, of course, many of the classic principle cases, including (among many others) Mapp v. Ohio, Wong Sun v. United States, Florida v. Royer, Franks v. Delaware, Chimel v. California, Schneckloth v. Bustamonte, Miranda v. Arizona, and United States v. Wade.

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