Sino-American Criminal Procedure: A Collection of Essays on Litigation and Arbitration (2)

Author: Wang Zhaopeng
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Under U.S. federal law, the rights of criminal defendants were initially only applicable 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 all states, requiring states to uniformly apply them. To justify its rulings, the Supreme Court demonstrated a grand constitutional human rights theory and a visionary criminal justice policy, with rigorous and meticulous reasoning. The United States does not have a unified criminal 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, intimidating and deterring them from delving deeper, let alone mastering the intricacies. This book systematically introduces U.S. criminal procedure law, including analyses of Supreme Court rulings, differences between federal and state laws, interpretations of regulations, and critiques and discussions from academia.