Legal Research Guides by Course - Advanced Criminal Procedure: Jail to Bail
Course Description
This course will cover all aspects of criminal proceedings from the time a defendant is arrested through his trial, appeal, sentencing, review on appeal and challenge to the constitutionality of his detention in state post-conviction and federal habeas corpus proceedings. For those interested in practicing criminal law, either as a prosecutor or defense lawyer, this course will provide an overview of some of the most essential topics encountered in practice. Topics include pretrial release, grand juries, discovery, guilty pleas, jury selection, double jeopardy, sentencing and appellate and collateral review. The course will pay particular attention to plea bargaining, which leads to 95% of all convictions in state courts and 96% of all convictions in federal courts. (3 credits)
Faculty Who Teach This Course
- Wesley M. Oliver (Associate Professor of Law)
Subject Covered Presently in Collection by
Print Collection
KF9601-KF9763 Criminal Procedure
KFP575-KFP594 Pennsylvania Criminal Procedure
Legal Research Databases
Lexis and Westlaw
BNA Online- Criminal Law Reporter
Bloomberg Law
Hein Online
LoisLaw-Treatise Library-Litigation Library
CALI - Criminal Procedure
Criminal Procedure (LII)
Criminal Prof Blog
Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing
Federal Grand Jury (U Dayton)
Double Jeopardy (LII)
Double Jeopardy (FindLaw)
How Does Plea Bargaining Work? (ExpertLaw)
The Plea Bargaining Blog
Gumberg Library Databases
DCLI Webpage Links
- Primary Legal Research: Case Law, Statutory Law, Administrative Law, Constitutions (contains quick links to our statutes, our administrative codes, federal and state case law and our constitutions)
- Legal Research Guides: Criminal Law
Course Listed Under the following Law School Concentrations
created by Patricia Horvath 9/7/2012
rev. 1/30/2013