The Second Edition has been thoroughly updated and provides analysis of the impact of important recent decisions, such as Arizona v. Gant, Herring v. U.S., Berghuis v. Thompkins, Maryland v. Shatzer, Montejo v. Louisiana, and Perry v. New Hampshire. In addition, the Second Edition examines new decisions affecting right to counsel. New supplemental handouts and practice materials are available on the companion website.

Features:

• Written in the approachable style of Chemerinsky's Constitutional Law casebook
  • features cases and minor cases
  • offers author-written essays
  • omits both notes in the form of rhetorical questions and excerpts from law review articles
• Organized chronologically through the adjudication process
• Dynamic text guides students through understanding the law
  • tightly edited cases
  • samples of legal pleadings arguing the issues
  • perspectives from prosecutors, defense, counsel, judges, police, and victims
• Consistent systematic approach to topics in each chapter
  • an introduction laying out the nature of the issue
  • discussion of the history and development of the law
  • examples of recent and seminal cases that raise key criminal procedure issues
  • analytic approach toward resolving a specific legal issue--what worked and why
  • questions--and answers--to provoke class discussion

Thoroughly updated, the revised Second Edition presents:

• Analysis of the impact of recent decisions
  • Missouri v. Frye
  • Lafler v. Cooper
  • Skilling v. United States
  • Michigan v. Bryant
  • Bullcoming v. New Mexico
  • Williams v. Illinois
  • Graham v. Florida
  • Miller v. Alabama
• Examination of new decisions' effects
  • right to fair trial
  • habeas corpus law