Description

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Providing a complete view of US legal principles, this book presents as a cohesive whole the interrelationships between constitutional principles, statutory criminal laws, procedural law, and common law evidentiary doctrines. This fully revised and updated new edition also includes questions and scenarios to check learning.

About the Author

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Walter P. Signorelli is Lecturer and Adjunct Professor of Law and Police Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York (CUNY), USA, and a practicing criminal defense attorney. Signorelli was a member of the New York City Police Department for more than thirty years. He retired as an Inspector in the Detective Division having been the commanding officer of precincts in Brooklyn and Manhattan, in the Organized Crime Control Bureau, and in the Narcotics Division. He is a graduate of St. John's University School of Law, cum laude, and the Columbia University Police Management Institute. He is the author of The Crisis of Police Liability Lawsuits: Prevention and Management (2006), The Constable Has Blundered: The Exclusionary Rule, Crime, and Corruption (2010), Rome and America: The Great Republics: What the Fall of the Roman Republic Portends for the United States (2018), and Tiberius Bound (2022).