American Criminal Procedure Law

Author: Wang Zhaopeng
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: The rights of criminal defendants under U.S. federal law were initially only applicable to the federal government, with states unrestricted. Since the 1960s, the U.S. Supreme Court has gradually applied certain constitutional rights of defendants to the states through its rulings, requiring all states to uniformly adopt these rights. To justify its rulings, the Supreme Court has demonstrated a grand constitutional human rights theory and a forward-looking criminal procedure policy, with rigorous and meticulous reasoning. The United States does not have a unified criminal procedure code; the rulings of the Supreme Court truly represent U.S. criminal procedure law. For those unfamiliar with the common law system, these rulings are lengthy, fragmented, and lack a systematic structure, making them intimidating and daunting to approach, let alone delve into to uncover their intricacies. This book systematically introduces U.S. criminal procedure law, including an analysis of Supreme Court rulings, differences between federal and state laws, the interpretation of regulations, and critiques and discussions from academia.