American Criminal Procedure Today

"This comprehensive, engaging, and highly-illustrative book bridges the gap between the theoretical presentations of criminal procedure and the practical realities of working in the field. Appreciating that, for many readers, the text will be their first formal introduction to the subject, the text provides students with a thorough, yet very readable, introduction to the essential and most-relevant terms, doctrines, cases, and procedures that govern many procedures of today's criminal justice system"--