Introduction -- Incorporation & retroactivity -- Right to counsel -- Search and seizure -- Police interrogations & confessions -- Entrapment -- Identification procedures -- Exclusionary rule -- Initial appearance and pretrial release -- Prosecutorial discretion -- Case screening : preliminary hearings and grand juries -- Discovery and disclosure -- Joinder and severance -- Pre-charge delay and speedy trial -- Guilty pleas -- Jury trials -- The rights to confrontation and compulsory process -- Freedom of the press and fair trials -- Sentencing -- Double jeopardy -- Post-trial motions and direct appeals -- Collateral remedies.

"This book gives you everything you need to know about basic criminal procedure principles, presented in a no-nonsense fashion. It includes references to recent, relevant decisions handed down by the United States Supreme Court. In addition, Principles of Criminal Procedure contains helpful study devices such as 'focal points' at the beginning of each chapter, and 'points to remember' at the end of each section. This is the only study aid you will need to help you understand basic criminal procedure principles in U.S. law." - publisher's description

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