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Criminal Procedure: Examples and Explanations (The examples & explanations series)
by Robert M. Bloom, Mark S. Brodin
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Little Brown & Co Law & Business (1996-06)
ISBN: 0316099317
EAN: 9780316099318
Dewy Decimal #: 345.730522
Paperback: 350 pages
Edition: 2nd
SKU: S070518-3207
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Very good overall condition. No writing, very tight binding. Ships same day or next in a bubble mailer. Enjoy.
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Product Description
A favorite among law students and professors alike, the Examples & Explanations series is ideal for studying, reviewing and testing your understanding through application of hypothetical examples. Authored by leading professors with extensive classroom experience, Examples & Explanations titles offer hypothetical questions in the subject area, complemented by detailed explanations that allow you to test your knowledge of the topic, and compare your own analysis.
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Customer Reviews
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No good for adjudicative procedure
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-04-04
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I am a fool for the E&E, I never take an exam without going through an E&E first. So I bought this book without a second thought, opened it up and was pretty bummed to find out it only covers investigative procedure. My class is adjudicative procedure, and I'm not going to find any damn help from this book. If your class is the same, I wouldn't buy this-- get the Advanced CrimPro Nutshell instead.
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Sucks compared to the other Examples and Explanation books
Rating  (2)
Date: 2007-03-04
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I really like Examples and Explanations (e.g. CivPro and Contracts). But this book wasn't useful to me at all. It feels more like a survey article in a newspaper than a helpful commercial source.
My professor said that only commercial source that was any good re Constitutional Criminal Procedure is the book by Lafave and Israel.
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Decent for exam review
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-01-09
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
The E&E series can be a little uneven. (The Civil Procedure book is better than most Civ Pro casebooks for actually learning Civ Pro; the Criminal Law book has some outright errors.)
This one's better than average--not a substitute for doing your regular reading, but good for exam review. My only complaint is that many of the "examples" are real cases, so they don't test you much if you already did your other reading.
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A must for criminal procedure.
Rating (4)
Date: 2006-04-12
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
This supplement is a must. It will save you time and energy. Bloom and Brodin give clean definitions for 4th amendment, 5th, and 6th. A friend of mine who passed the July 05 CA Bar (on the first attempt), used this book as her sole preparation for criminal procedure essay section. The checklist located in the appendix will ensure that you will not miss any issues.
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Great supplement but bad teacher
Rating (4)
Date: 2004-12-13
12 out of 15 customers found this reveiw helpful
I just used this book to help me study for my CrimPro exam. I thought it was very, very helpful, but only because I had read my casebook and attended class all semester. Unlike Glannon's CivPro E&E (which is a MUST-BUY for any 1L), this book would not have been valuable if I had opened it during the semester; it was only valuable before my exam as a review. It does not provide insight into why the Supreme Court decided certain things; it simply gives us the rules the Court spat out with a miniscule amount of justification, if any. Your casebook and professor would likely discuss the reasons why the Court decided the way it did and why the concurring or dissenting justices reasoned the way they did.
Thus this book does not give you a complete view of Criminal Procedure. But that is not what we are supposed to expect from study aids and supplements such as this. For what this book is supposed to be, a supplement/complement to the work you've already done, it is excellent. So make sure if you buy this that you are buying it for the right reasons. If you need a book explaining CrimPro in detail, then you should probably read your casebook.
I do have to say, however, that the hypotheticals are excellent and give you a good feel for what kinds of essays you might encounter on your exam. They allow you to walk through your analysis, exactly how your professor would expect you to, from start to finish.
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