Kamisar, LaFave, and Israel's Criminal Procedure

This sixteenth edition continues with its comprehensive coverage of the constitutional, statutory, and ethical rules regulating the criminal adjudicatory processes with clear statements of the black-letter law as well as inclusion of the most thoughtful and provocative commentary available.

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The Sixteenth Edition continues with its comprehensive coverage of the constitutional, statutory, and ethical rules regulating the criminal adjudicatory processes with clear statements of the black-letter law as well as inclusion of the most thoughtful and provocative commentary available. The authors bring together the latest statistics, relevant legislative trends, and insightful policy and scholarly debates, facilitating critical analysis of the process and its potential reforms. The new edition pays increased attention to history, race and racial justice, and empirical studies, framing the issues in a way that makes this textbook the nation's premier text for teaching criminal procedure.

The book covers such topics as:


Right to counsel
Pretrial release and detention
Prosecutorial discretion in charging
Screening the charge, preliminary hearings and grand jury review
The charging instrument
Location of prosecution
Joinder of charges and defendants
Speedy trial
Discovery and disclosure
Guilty pleas and plea bargaining
Jury trials and trial rights
Double Jeopardy
Sentencing
Appeals and postconviction


Criminal Procedure: Adjudication includes chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, and 29 from Kamisar, LaFave, and Israel's Modern Criminal Procedure, 16th Edition (2023).