Book Description
Joel Samaha's straightforward, logical, and balanced presentation of legal issues helps student to grasp the complexities in a constitutional democracy of balancing the need for government power to secure public safety and guarantees of individual liberty and privacy. By focusing on comprehension and not memorization, he helps students understand our criminal procedures and why we need them. This text examines the constitutional requirements of criminal procedure and how these requirements are applied by the courts to law enforcement, prosecution, defense, pre-trial proceedings, adjudication, sentencing, appeal, and habeas corpus.
