Illustrates the best of both textbook and casebook formats, giving the reader a deeper understanding of criminal procedure and the cases that have shaped American criminal justice. Includes material on justice in a time of terror. -- Adapted from back cover.

The meaning of criminal procedure --|t The Fourth Amendment and the exclusionary rule --|t Essential Fourth Amendment doctrines --|t Arrest and stop under the Fourth Amendment --|t Warrantless searches --|t The right to counsel --|t Interrogation and the law of confessions --|t Identification of suspects : lineups and showups --|t Entrapment --|t The pretrial process --|t The trial process.