A short & happy guide to criminal procedure / Leslie W. Abramson.

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"This Short & Happy Guide makes the law about police practices and criminal trial proceedings accessible and easy to remember. Learn the key points of search and siezure law, police interrogtion, the right to counsel, the exclusionary rule, pretrial release, grand jury investigations, joinder, crimi...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Short & happy law series.
Main Author: Abramson, Leslie W. (Author)
Language:English
Published: St. Paul, MN : West Academic Publishing, [2021]
Edition:Fifth edition.
Series:Short & happy law series.
Subjects:
Criminal procedure > United States > Outlines, syllabi, etc.
Criminal procedure > United States > Study guides.
Outlines and syllabi.
Study guides.
Genre:
Outlines, syllabi, etc.
Study guides.
Outlines and syllabi.
Physical Description:xiv, 216 pages ; 23 cm.
Variant Title:
Short and happy guide to criminal procedure
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Fourth Amendment activity
  • Search warrants and arrest warrants
  • Warrantless searches
  • Police interrogation and confessions
  • Identificatio procedures
  • Exclusionary rule
  • Prosecutorial discretion
  • Right to council
  • Pretrial release
  • Preliminary proceedings
  • Grand jury proceedings
  • The charging instrument
  • Joinder and severance
  • Speedy trial
  • Discovery
  • Freedom of the press and fair trial
  • Plea bargaining
  • Jury trials
  • Trial rights
  • Sentencing
  • Appeals
  • Double jeopardy
  • Post-conviction remedies.