American criminal procedure : cases and commentary / Stephen A. Saltzburg, Daniel J. Capra.

Content
Chapter 1. Basic Principles
I. A criminal Case
II. The Nature of the procedural system and the sources of procedural rules
III. Two Special Aspects of Constitutional Law: The incorporate Doctrine and retroactive application of constitutional decisions

Chapter 2. Searches and Seizures Person and things
I. An Introduction to the fourth Amendment
II. Threshold requirements for fourth Amendment protections: what is a search? What is a Seizure?
III. The Tension between the reasonableness and the warrant Clauses
IV. Obtaining a search warrant : Constitutional prerequisites
V. To apply or Not apply the clause
VI. Wiretapping, Undercover Activity, and the outer reaches of the Fourth Amendment
VII. Remedies for Fourth Amendment Violation

Chapter 3. self-incrimination and Confessions
I. The Privilege against compelled self-incrimination
II. Confession and due process
III. The Special Federal Standard for confessions
IV. Confessions and the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel

Chapter 4. Identifying Suspects
I. Introduction
II. The Judicial Response

Chapter 5. The Right to Counsel
I. The Background
II. The Early Development of the Right
III. A New and Sweeping Right and its Limits
IV. The Scope of the Right

Chapter 6. The Screening and Charging Process
I. Introduction
II.Choices and Charging Process
III. Screening by the Police
IV. The Prosecutorial Decision Whether to charge
V. The Grand Jury
VII. The Preliminary Hearing and its Relationship to Indictments and Information

Chapter 7. Bail and Preventive Detention
I. Introduction to the problems of pretrial restraint
II. Bail: Its History and Constitution
III. The Operation of Bail Release System
IV. Bail Reform and preventive Detention
V. Special Problems in the Operation of Bail

Chapter 8. Discovery
I. Criminal Discovery: Unlike Civil Discovery
II. The Basic Issues
III. Discovery on behalf of the Defendant
IV. The Prosecutor's Constitutional Duty to Disclose
V. Discovery by the Prosecution

Chapter 9. Guilty Pleas and Bargaining
I. The General Issues
II. The Requirement for a Valid Guilty Plea

Chapter 10. Trial and Trial related Rights
I. The Right to a speedy Trial
II. Joinder and Severance
III. Constitutionally Based Proof Requirement
IV. Trial by Jury
V. The Impartiality of the Tribunal and the Influence of the press
etc.

Chapter 11. Sentencing
I. Introduction
II. Guidelines Sentencing
III. Sentencing Procedure

Chapter 12. Double Jeopardy
I. Introduction
II. The Effect of an Acquittal
III. The Convicted Defendant Appeals
IV. Multiple Prosecutions of Convicted Defendants
V. Civil Penalties as Punishment
etc.

Chapter 13. Post-Conviction Challenges
I. Introduction
II. Grounds for Direct Attacks on a conviction
III. Collateral Attack

Includes bibliographical references (p. lxxxvii-xcvii) and index.

Kept up to date by supplements.