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The 2022 edition of American Criminal Procedure incorporates substantial changes in both caselaw and the law enforcement landscape while maintaining the editorial voice that has earned accolades from generations of students and professors. This edition of the classic casebook contains detailed and authoritative commentary, extensive discussion of practical problems, highlighted treatment of selected recent lower-court cases, full consideration of Supreme Court cases, and questions that challenge the conceptions and analytical powers of law students. New features include the addition of historical materials; more headnotes; full case treatment of important new Supreme Court cases; and scholarly commentary on such topics as electronic searches, the exclusionary rule, Miranda, and the intersections between race and criminal justice. The authors have made a concerted attempt to arrange the material in a way that facilitates organized analysis of criminal procedure questions without sacrificing nuance.

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Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: American Casebook Series
Publication Date: 05/02/2022

Stephen A. Saltzburg, George Washington University Law School

Daniel J. Capra, Fordham University School of Law

David C. Gray, University of Maryland School of Law

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1. Insightful incorporation of major opinions from the Supreme Court as well as federal and state courts.

2. Additional historical materials providing students with important context for contemporary treatments of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.

3. Extensive treatment of new developments in Fourth Amendment law regulating electronic surveillance including cellphone tracking.

4. A substantially reorganized Fourth Amendment chapter that:

a. Situates recent landmark decisions in a historical and conceptual context that allows students to see clearly the intellectual foundations of cases like United States v. Jones, Riley v. California, and Carpenter v. United States, while preparing them to analyze the Fourth Amendment status of new and emerging surveillance technologies.

b. Presents students with a clear, disciplined framework for analyzing Fourth Amendment questions.

c. Invites students to identify and engage social justice questions and to consider opportunities to address racial disparities in policing practices.

5. New commentary on the Fifth and Sixth Amendment as they apply to interrogations.

6. Discussion of new challenges to the reliability of identification evidence, and extra-constitutional safeguards to remedy these concerns.

7. A new section on identification procedures drawing on major state court decisions, including State v. Martinez.

8. New analysis and commentary of grand juries in light of major cases, including Trump v. Vance.

9. New material and commentary on jury trials, including the Court’s decision in Ramos v. Louisiana.

10. New coverage of the prohibition on double jeopardy in light of Gamble v. United States.

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