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This student-friendly text, the only criminal procedure casebook authored by two female law professors of color, highlights social justice issues intertwined with the law of criminal procedure and integrates issues of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation where relevant.


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: American Casebook Series
Publication Date: 12/21/2022

Cynthia Lee, George Washington University Law School

L. Song Richardson, University of CA-Irvine School of Law

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While keeping most of the material that was in the last edition, the next edition includes new material on race and gender in the right to counsel chapter and in other chapters. It also includes edited versions of some of the significant Supreme Court cases that came out after the last edition was published. There is some slight reorganization of material in Chapter 2, but no cases have been deleted from that chapter. Introductory notes have been added in the chapter on the Exclusionary Rule to provide more guidance to students on the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine.

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