Includes Index.

Contents: Framework for the study of criminal procedure: Individual rights under the United States constitution -- Criminal courts, pretrial processes and trials -- Basic Underlying concepts: the exclusionary rule, privacy, probable cause, and reasonableness -- Search warrants, arrests, stops and frisks: Criminal investigatory search warrants -- Administrative searches, special needs searches and electronic surveillance -- Arrest -- Stops and frisks -- Exceptions to the searches incident to arrest and protective sweeps -- Consent searches -- The Plain view doctrine -- Searches incident to arrest and protective sweeps -- Consent searches -- The Plain view doctrine -- Search and seizure of vehicles and containers -- Open fields and abandoned property -- Criminal procedure and the fifth and sixth amendments: Interrogations, admissions, and confessions -- Pretrial visual identification procedures.