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Chapter 1: The Border of Criminal Procedure: Daily Interactions Between Citizens and Police
- A. Police as Community Caretakers
- B. Police Enforcement of Civility
- C. Traditional and Community Policing
- D. Curfew Laws
- E. Additional Reading: State v. Carlile; Chapter 1 Notes/Outline
Chapter 2: Brief Searches & Stops
- A. Brief Investigative Stops of Suspects
- B. Brief Administrative Stops of Suspects
- C. Gathering Information without Searching
- D. Terry Stops and Frisks for Weapons
- E. Additional Reading: Florida v. Riley; United States v. Whren;
  NY Attorney General's Report On Stop and Frisk Practices; Indianapolis v. Edmond (Drug Checkpoints); Chapter 2 Notes/Outline
Chapter 3: Full Searches of People and Places: Basic Concepts
- A. Origin of the Fourth Amendment and Its Equivalents
- B. Probable Cause
- C. Warrants
- D. Consent
- E. Additional Reading: Writs of Assistance; Reasonable and Articulable Suspicion; Nighttime Searches; Illinois v. Gates; Spinelli v. United States; New York v. Belton; Chapter 3 Notes/Outline
Chapter 4: Searches in Recurring Contexts
- A. Searches of Persons
- B. Searches of Houses and Other Places
- C. Papers
- D. Effects
- E. Additional Reading: Florida v. Bostick; Drug Testing: Cases and Policies; California v. Acevedo; New York v. Belton; Chapter 4 Notes/Outline
Chapter 5: Arrests
- A. Stop v. Arrest
- B. Arrest Warrants
- C. Police Discretion in the Decision to Arrest
- D. Paper Arrests: Citations
- E. Use of Force
- F. Additional Reading: State v. Coll; Chapter 5 Notes/Outline
Chapter 6: Remedies For Unreasonable Searches & Seizures
- A. Origins of the Exclusionary Rule
- B. Limitations on the Exclusionary Rule
- C. Additions and Alternatives to the Exclusionary Rule
- D. Additional Reading: People v. Defore; United States v. Leon
Chapter 7: The Impact of Technology and Politics
- A. Technology (wiretaps, privacy, enhancement of the senses)
- B. Politics (legislators, judicial doctrine)
Chapter 8: Interrogations
- A. Voluntariness of Confessions
- B. Miranda Warnings
- C. Invocation and Waiver of Miranda Rights
- D. Miranda: Cures, impacts, and alternatives
- E. Additional Reading: Ashcraft et al. v. State of Tennessee; Escobedo v. Illinois; Massiah v. United States; Minnick v. Mississippi; Moran v. Burbine; New York v. Benjamin Quarles.
Chapter 9: Identifications
- A. Risks of Mistaken Identification
- B. Legal Limits on Identification Procedure
- C. Remedies for Improper Identification
- D. Additional Reading: Manson v. Brathwaite
Chapter 10: Complex Investigations
- A. Selection and Pursuit of Targets
- B. The Investigative Grand Jury
Chapter 11: (Paperback Chapter 1): Defense Counsel
- A. When Will Counsel Be Provided
- B. Selection and Rejection of Counsel
- C. Adequacy of Counsel
- D. Systems for Delivering Counsel
- E. Ethics of Defending Criminals
- F. Additional Reading: Argersinger v. Hamlin
Chapter 12: (Paperback Chapter 2): Pretrial Release and Detention
- A. Pretrial Release
- B. Pretrial Detention
Chapter 13: (Paperback Chapter 3): Charging
- A. Police Screening
- B. Prosecutorial Screening
- C. Grand Jury and Judicial Screening
- D. Additional Reading: United States v. Batchelder
Chapter 14: (Paperback Chapter 4): Jeopardy and Joinder
- A. Double Jeopardy
- B. Joinder
- C. Additional Reading: Ashe v. Swenson; Arizona v. Washington; United States v. Mandujano; Double Jeopardy; Jury Trials
Chapter 15: (Paperback Chapter 5): Forfeiture of Assets
- A. Property Subject to Forfeiture
- B. Initiating Forfeitures
- C. Resolving Forfeitures
- D. Additional Reading:
Chapter 16: (Paperback Chapter 6): Discovery and Speedy Trial
- A. Discovery
- B. Speedy Trial Preparation
- C. Additional Reading: Barker v. Wingo
Chapter 17: (Paperback Chapter 7): Pleas and Bargains
- A. Why Bargain?
- B. Categorical Restraints on Bargaining?
- C. Validity of Individual Plea Bargains
- D. Making and Breaking Bargains
- E. Future of Bargaining
- F. Additional Reading: United States v. Benchimol; Blackledge v. Allison; Bordenkircher v. Hayes; Boykin v. Alabama
Chapter 18: (Paperback Chapter 8): Decisionmakers at Trial
- A. Judge or Jury
- B. Selecting Jurors
- C. Jury Deliberations and Verdicts
- D. The Public as Decision Maker
- E. Additional Reading: Arizona v. Washington; Lockhart v. McCree; Burch v. Louisiana; Blanton v. City of North Las Vegas.; Murphy v. Florida
Chapter 19: (Paperback Chapter 9): Witnesses and Proof
- A. Burden of Proof
- B. Confrontations
- C. Self-incrimination privilege at Trial
- D. Ethics at Trial
- E. Additional Reading: Illinois v. Allen; Bourjaily v. United States
Chapter 20: (Paperback Chapter 10): Sentencing
- A. Who Sentences?
- B. Revisiting Investigations and Charges
- C. Revisiting Pleas and Trials
- D. New Information About Offender and Victim
Chapter 21: (Paperback Chapter 11): Race and Punishment
- A. An American Dilemma
- B. Race and the Victims of Crime
- C. Differential Racial Participation in Crime
- D. Race and Discretionary Decisions Affecting Punishment
Chapter 22: (Paperback Chapter 12): Appeals
- A. Who Appeals?
- B. Scope of Appeal.

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