Database Name: Criminal Procedure
Database Identifier: CRIMPROC
Coverage
Current through 2009-2010 November Print Supplement.
Content Highlights:
The 2009-2010 supplement to Criminal Procedure, 3d contains many new cases and developments, including:
| District Attorney's Office v. Osborne (129 S.Ct 2308) - analysis of the Supreme Court's decision regarding due process (DNA testing) |
| Arizona v. Gant (129 S.Ct. 1710) - discussion of both majority and dissenting opinions relating to the Court's previous Belton ruling |
| Corley v. United States (129 S.Ct. 1558) - updated explanation of the McNabb-Mallory rule and the Supreme Court's final resolution of existing disagreement |
| Bobby v. Bies (129 S.Ct. 2145) - updated commentary on the recent Supreme Court holding on mental retardation and execution (re-litigating mental retardation issue) |
| Many new Circuit Court cases on jury procedures and misconduct, see s 24.9, esp. 24.9(f). Examples include jurors access to the internet, use of the Bible as an external influence, and racial bias. |
| Fully updated finding aids: Table of Secondary Authorities (containing substantial additional reference sources), Table of Cases, Tables of Laws, Regulations and Rules, and a full text index. |
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Contents
Content Type: Treatise
The CRIMPROC database contains the full text of Criminal Procedure, Third Edition, part of Thomson Reuters/West's Criminal Practice Series. This is a seven-volume treatise analyzing every aspect of criminal procedure. A document is a section of text, appendix or finding aid.
Publisher/Provider: Thomson Reuters/West
Author(s): Wayne R. LaFave, David C. Baum Professor of Law Emeritus and Center for Advanced Study Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois.
Jerold H. Israel, Alene and Allan F. Smith Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Michigan and Ed Root Eminent Scholar Emeritus, University of Florida, Levin College of Law
Orin S. Kerr, Professor of Law, George Washington University
Nancy J. King, Lee S. and Charles A. Speir Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University
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Related databases: SEARCHSZR contains the treatise Search and Seizure: A Treatise on the Fourth Amendment. CRLDEF contains the treatise Criminal Law Defenses. SUBCRL contains the treatise Substantive Criminal Law. MANPROBCT contains the full text of the Federal Judicial Center's Manual on Recurring Problems in Criminal Trials.CJ-TP contains criminal justice related documents from law reviews, texts, CLE course materials, bar journals and legal practice-oriented periodicals.
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