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 applicable only to the federal government, with states unrestricted. After the 1960s, the U.S. Supreme Court, through its rulings, gradually extended certain constitutional rights of defendants to the states, requiring states to uniformly apply them. To justify its rulings, the Supreme Court demonstrated a grand constitutional human rights theory and a far-sighted 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 difficult to approach, let alone delve into to uncover their essence. This book systematically introduces U.S. criminal procedure law, including an analysis of Supreme Court rulings, differences between federal and state laws, interpretations of regulations, and critiques and discussions from academia.