Ebook: Understanding criminal procedure. Volume 1, Investigation

Introduction to criminal procedure -- Overarching policy issues in criminal procedure -- Incorporation of the Bill of Rights -- Fourth Amendment: overview -- Fourth Amendment: "persons, houses, papers, and effects" -- Fourth Amendment terminology: "search" -- Fourth Amendment terminology: "seizure" -- Fourth Amendment: "probable cause" -- Arrests -- Search warrants: in general -- Warrantless searches: exigent circumstances -- Searches incident to lawful arrests -- Searches of cars and containers therein -- "Plain view" and related documents -- Inventory searches -- Consent searches -- Terry v. Ohio: the "reasonableness" balancing standard in criminal investigations -- More "reasonableness" balancing: searches and seizures primarily conducted for non-criminal law purposes -- Fourth Amendment: standing -- Fourth Amendment: exclusionary rule -- Interrogation law: overview -- Interrogation law: due process clause -- Interrogation law: privilege against compelled self-incrimination -- Interrogation law: Miranda v. Arizona -- Interrogation law: Sixth Amendment right to counsel -- Eyewitness identification procedures -- Entrapment -- The right to counsel: at trial and on appeal.