Criminal Procedure

Criminal Procedure: A Free Law School Casebook

This Casebook is designed for the “investigations” criminal procedure class commonly taught at American law schools. It focuses on the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Fourth Amendment topics include definitions of “search” and “seizure,” probable cause, warrants, exceptions to the warrant requirement (e.g., plain view, consent, automobiles), stop & frisk, and arrests. Moving to interrogations, the book covers due process and the voluntariness requirement, the Miranda Rule, and the Massiah doctrine.

Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure - Archival Copies

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These rules govern the conduct of all criminal proceedings brought in Federal courts.

Our Federal Rules ebooks include:

Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 2015

Criminal procedure deals with the set of rules governing the series of proceedings through which the government enforces substantive criminal law.

This series of Federal Rules books, consisting of the Federal Rules of Evidence, Criminal Procedure and Civil Procedure,  are powered by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School, and created in partnership with The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI). You may download the books for free, but remember that publishing these books is not free for our organizations.