Chapter 1: Overview of Criminal Procedure
Introduction to Criminal Procedure
Let’s Make a Deal: The Social Contract
The Criminal Justice System, or Is It Systems?
Competition, not Cooperation: Adversarial System
Lay Down the Law: Sources of Criminal Procedure
We the People: The Constitution and Criminal Procedure
On the Right[s] Side of the Law
The People in the Process
Chapter 2: Courts of Law, Not Justice
Order in the Court System
Courts of Law, Not Justice
Poisonous Trees and Their Fruit
Chapter 3: To Be Let Alone: The Fourth Amendment
Who Is Controlled: State Action
Who Is Protected and What Is Protected
When Is There a Search?: People and Places
Suspicious Minds: The Fourth Amendment Pyramid
Righting the Wrong: Fourth Amendment Violations
The Weakest Link: Fourth Amendment Analysis
Chapter 4: An Exception to Every Rule: Fourth Amendment
Search Incident to Arrest
In the Corrections Context
Administrative and School Searches
Chapter 5: In the Driver’s Seat: Car Searches and Seizures
Putting the Brakes On: Car Stops
Chapter 6: Good Cop, Bad Cop: Interrogations & Confessions
The Problem: Wrongful Convictions and False Confessions
The Reality: Innocent People Confess
Chapter 7: Seeing is Believing: Eyewitness and Forensic Evidence
The Problem: Eyewitness Misidentification
The Solution: Blinded by the Science
A Trace Behind: Forensic Science
Chapter 8: Process is Punishment: Pretrial
Arraignment and Plea Bargaining
Chapter 9: Hear ye, hear ye: Trial
Say It to My Face: Confrontation and Cross-Examination
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Chapter 10: Do the Crime, Do the Time: Sentencing and Punishment
To What End? Purposes of Punishment
Don’t Be a Pain: The Eighth Amendment
Chapter 11: Constitutional Kitchen Sink: Other Rights
Enumerated Rights: The First Amendment
Enumerated Rights: The Second Amendment and Other Enumerated Rights
Chapter 12: Police Accountability Through Liability
The Facts and Figures of Civil Liability
Overview of Civil Liability