Criminal Litigation and Legal Issues in Criminal Procedure: Readings and Hypothetical Exercises

Most trial advocacy courses offer skills training that incorporates little or no substantive law principles. By the same token, most criminal law and procedure courses focus on legal principles and doctrine only, ignoring courtroom advocacy skills training concerning substantive law. This book merges elements from these two types of courses into one and bridges the gap between them.

Criminal Litigation and Legal Issues in Criminal Procedure covers all stages of a criminal prosecution-from the preliminary hearing through the motion for a new trial-and examines nearly all of the constitutional issues addressed in a traditional criminal procedure course. However, unlike traditional criminal procedure texts, this book involves five weekly advocacy exercises and minimal lecturing. The exercises require each associate to play the role of either defense counsel or prosecutor.