Open Educational Resources

100% Free. Creative Commons licensed. Peer-reviewed. And backed by additional CALI resources. Simple to adopt or even modify. We make it easy to improve student access to legal education. CALI also offers a low cost print copy for approximately $20: 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. Next the book covers the exclusionary rule, including doctrines about standing and exceptions. Other chapters cover the right to counsel (including ineffective assistance and self-representation), witness identifications, and—briefly—electronic surveillance and the “war on terror.”

This book is available for free download from SSRN. An updated version from 2021 is available via CALI's eLangdell platform as well: Show Me Criminal Procedure is a criminal procedure casebook available at no charge under a Creative Commons license. An open educational resources (OER) book funded by grants from the University of Missouri System, the book was written by two professors at the University of Missouri School of Law. Ben Trachtenberg teaches criminal procedure, evidence, and professional responsibility. Anne Alexander is director of the law school’s legal research and writing program. Like many criminal procedure casebooks, Show Me Criminal Procedure takes most of its words from Supreme Court opinions interpreting the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments. When possible, it links to sources that it cites, such as court opinions and scholarly commentaries. Note: Faculty considering assigning the book to students should feel free to contact Professor Trachtenberg about teaching materials.

This item is available for free to students through the law library subscription to West Academic Study Aids. It is in the Concepts & Insights collection: This readable book walks step-by-step through the criminal adjudication process, from the post-arrest bail decision and the right to counsel through the post-trial direct appeal. It analyzes the main cases and statutes in each area, showing how the doctrine has developed and its current state. The book also places great emphasis on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, working through their text in a clear, understandable way, explaining not only the law but the strategic issues that a lawyer might face. This is the ideal book for the student who wants both a broad overview of how the parts of the process fit together and enough detail to understand the thorny problems that are most likely to arise on an exam and in practice. This book works equally well as a stand-alone text or as a supplement to a traditional casebook.

This 15 chapter online text is made available for free via the H2O platform. H2O offers a platform for making and sharing open-licensed casebooks and other course materials online. It was created originally by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. It's developed and maintained today by the Library Innovation Lab at the Harvard Law School Library: These materials are intended to provide students an opportunity to reflect on the course material by setting it in the context of ongoing challenges in criminal procedure. It is adapted from the Criminal Law Materials developed in tandem with Michelle Oberman and our team of students. This represents our work to date, but these casebooks are part of an ongoing, iterative process--they are not fixed. We want to hear from you about what we missed, what we should include, what's not working for you. The casebook, in other words, is a communal project, permitting collaboration with colleagues from around the globe.

This item is available for free to students through the law library subscription to West Academic Study Aids. It is a Hornbook Treatise: This book gives you everything you need to know about basic criminal procedure principles, presented in a no-nonsense fashion. It includes references to recent, relevant decisions handed down by the United States Supreme Court. In addition, Principles of Criminal Procedure contains helpful study devices such as "focal points" at the beginning of each chapter, and "points to remember" at the end of each section. This is the only study aid you will need to help you understand basic criminal procedure principles in U.S. law.

This item is available for free to students through the law library subscription to West Academic Study Aids. It is a Hornbook Treatise: This book, for use in connection with a course focused upon crime detection and investigation, examines various investigative procedures, including search and seizure, network surveillance, entrapment, interrogation, lineup and photo identification, and grand jury investigation; describes the scope and administration of exclusionary rules relating to those procedures; and also discusses the right to counsel. All sections in the book are cross-referenced to comparable sections of the authors' seven-volume Criminal Procedure treatise containing more detailed analysis and citations to additional supporting authorities.

This item is available for free to students through the law library subscription to West Academic Study Aids. It is a Hornbook Treatise: This book, for use in connection with a course focused upon the formal part of the criminal process, covers counsel, bail, the charging decision, preliminary hearing and grand jury review, the prosecution's location and scope, speedy trial, pleading and discovery, guilty pleas, jury trial, pretrial publicity, the trial, double jeopardy, sentencing, appeal, and collateral attack. All sections in the book are cross-referenced to comparable sections of the authors' seven-volume Criminal Procedure treatise containing more detailed analysis and citations to additional supporting authorities.