Our Constitutional Constraints

Download or read book Our Constitutional Constraints written by Stephen E Henderson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for the American law school classroom or self-study, this book is about the criminal attorney-what the federal Constitution says prosecutors and defense attorneys can and cannot do in the adjudication of crime. It is also critically about what those actors _ought_ to do in the adjudication of crime. The text proceeds as chronologically as possible through the process of a prosecution, beginning with pretrial release and the charging decision, considering trial preparation and the right to counsel, turning to the jury and then the defense, stepping back to consider guilty pleas and plea bargaining, and finishing off with double jeopardy and sentencing.