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Gilbert Law Summaries on Criminal Procedure

- Exam-oriented approaches for different topic areas emphasize the issues most likely to be tested - Fine tune your understanding with real law school essay questions — all with explained answers- - Timesaving study guide useful for class review and exam preparation - Written by prominent law school professors - Text correlation chart helps match your reading assignment to relevant pages in the outline to cut search time - Test yourself with multiple choice, true/false questions, with answers referring back to the text — learn from mistakes - Reference includes detailed index, table of cases, and table of citations to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure The topics covered in this criminal procedure outline are the exclusionary rule, arrests and other detentions, search and seizure, privilege against self-incrimination, confessions, and preliminary hearing. Discusses bail, indictment, speedy trial, competency to stand trial, government's obligation to disclose information, right to jury trial, and right to counsel. Also includes right to confront witnesses, burden of proof, insanity, entrapment, guilty pleas, sentencing, death penalty, ex post facto issues, appeal, habeas corpus, juvenile offenders, prisoners' rights, and double jeopardy.