Whitebread and Slobogin's Criminal Procedure, An Analysis of Cases and Concepts, 5th (University Textbook Series)

This publication covers the law governing the criminal process, excluding sentencing. The first half of the book examines legal strictures on investigative techniques, search and seizure, interrogation, subpoenas, identification procedures, and undercover work. The remaining chapters discuss the adjudicatory process, from pretrial detention and the charging decision, through preliminary hearings, discovery, plea bargaining, trial, appeal, and habeas. Other topics include double jeopardy doctrine, right to counsel issues, and state constitutional law. Students, academics and lawyers choose this title for it concise and well-organized statements of the law, trenchant analysis, and attention to facts and legal doctrine.