If you do not own a copy of the Constitution of the United States of America, both Lexis and Westlaw have made pocket-sized editions of the Constitution available to students. Check the shelve in in the Computer Training and Research Center.

Constitution of the United States of America from Cornell's Legal Information Institute

U.S. Supreme Court Monitor, law.com's site offering Supreme Court news and commentary and monitoring which cases have been granted certiorari and which decisions each term have yet to be released. In the section covering cert. granted cases, the practice area "Criminal Practice" covers criminal procedure. (Free registration is required.)

Joseph G. Cook, Constitutional Rights of the Accused (3d ed. 1996, regular updates) (Call Number: KF 9625 .C68 1996 Law Stacks)

John Wesley Hall, Search and Seizure (3d ed. 2000, regular updates) (Call Number: KF 9630 .H34 2000 Law Stacks)

Wayne R. LaFave, et al., Criminal Procedure (3d ed., regular updates) (Call Number: KF 9619 .L342 2007 Law Open Reserve)

Wayne R. LaFave, Search and Seizure: A Treatise on the Fourth Amendment (4th ed. 2004, regular updates) (Call Number: KF 9630 .L26 2004 Law Open Reserve)

William E. Ringel, Searches & Seizures, Arrests and Confessions (2d ed. 1979, regular updates) (Call Number: KF 9625 .R53 1979 Law Stacks)

Charles E. Torica, Wharton's Criminal Procedure (13th ed. 1989, regular updates) (Call Number: KF 9619 .W43 1989 Law Stacks)

Wayne R. LaFave, et al., Criminal Procedure (4th ed. 2004) (Call Number: KF 9619 .L342 2004 Law Open Reserve) This is an abridged version of the multi-volume treatise by the same authors.

Wayne R. Lafave, Jerold H. Israel & Nancy J. King, Principles of Criminal Procedure: Investigation (Concise Hornbook Series, 2004) (Call Number: KF 9619 .L34534 2004 Law Open Reserve)

Wayne R. Lafave, Jerold H. Israel & Nancy J. King, Principles of Criminal Procedure: Post-Investigation (Concise Hornbook Series, 2004) (Call Number: KF 9619 .L344 2004 Law Open Reserve)

Charles H. Whitebread & Christopher Slobogin, Criminal Procedure: An Analysis of Cases and Concepts (4th ed. 2000, with 2001 Supplement) (Call Number: KF 9619 .W47 2000 Law Open Reserve)

Russell L. Weaver, et al., Principles of Criminal Procedure, (Concise Hornbook Series, 2d ed., 2007) (Call Number: KF 9619 .P74 2007 Law Open Reserve)

Robert M. Bloom & Mark S. Brodin, Criminal Procedure: The Constitution and the Police (Examples and Explanations Series, 5th ed. 2006) (Call Number: KF 9630 .Z9 B58 2006 Law Open Reserve & Law Reserve)

Joshua Dressler, Understanding Criminal Procedure (3d ed. 2002) (Call Number: KF 9619 .D74 2002 Law Open Reserve & Law Reserve)

Steven L. Emanuel, Criminal Procedure (27th ed. 2007) (Call Number: KF 9619.3 .E45 2007 Law Circulation)

Jerold H. Israel, Wayne R. LaFave, Criminal Procedure, Constitutional Limitations in a Nutshell (7th ed. 2006) (Call Number: KF 9619.3 I8 2006 Law Open Reserve)

Richard G. Singer, Criminal Procedure II: From Bail to Jail (Examples and Explanations Series, 2005)(Call Number: KF 9619.3 .S56 2005 Law Open Reserve & Law Reserve)

Carol S. Steiker, ed., Criminal Procedure Stories (Call Number: KF 9618 .C754 2006 Law Stacks.) A unique work that presents the stories behind famous criminal procedure cases. For each case under consideration, Criminal Procedure Stories discusses the parties, the context, the impact of the case, and its importance in shaping the law of criminal procedure.

Outlines for downloading (in Criminal Procedure and other subjects) from the Internet Legal Research Group

"Area of Law Outlines" (also called "Capsule Summaries") in Criminal Procedure and other subjects, from LexisNexis. Each outline is available in Word, PDF, or HTML format. (Students do not need LexisNexis IDs to view or download these outlines.)

BarPassers-Vol. I: Multistate Subjects (Call Number: KF C76 .B378 1999 Law Circulation) Outlines to prepare for the Multistate subjects of the bar examination, including Criminal Procedure.

Stephen A. Saltzburg, Daniel J. Capra, Basic Criminal Procedure (Black Letter Series, 3d ed. 2003) (Call Number: KF 9619.3 S25 2003 Law Open Reserve) This outline also includes a sample examination and answer.

James J. Tomkovicz, Criminal Procedure (Roadmap Law Course Outlines, 1997) (Call Number: KF 9619.3 T66 1997 Law Open Reserve)

CALI Lessons in Criminal Law & Procedure are available from the CALI web site. (Only a very few have relevance to criminal procedure.)

CALI Exercises are online, interactive tutorials. There are exercises for many law school courses, including Criminal Procedure. Law students who want to access these exercises will need the school's CALI authorization code. To get USF's CALI authorization codes, visit the Zief Library reference desk.

There are several items at the Zief Law Library Circulation⁄Reserve Desk that can be used to prepare for exams.

Some professors have placed their old exams on reserve at the Zief Library's Circulation/Reserve Desk. Ask at the desk by course name or professor's name.

Since Criminal Procedure is both a California Bar Exam essay topic and a Multistate Bar Exam topic, some bar examination preparation material is also listed here. Note that some of the bar examination material may have a different focus than what your professor may be looking for. Some of the resources in the "Outlines" section of this guide also have exam preparation material.

BarPassers Multistate Practice Questions and Simulated Multistate Bar Exam (Call Number: KFC 76 .B379 1999 Law Circulation)

Mary M. Cheh, Criminal Procedure (Exam Pro series, c2001). Multiple-choice questions with sample answers. (Call Number: KF 9619.5 .C48 2001 Law Open Reserve)

Emanuel 1st-Year Questions & Answers ('95-'96 ed.) (at Zief Law Library Circulation⁄Reserve Desk). A book with a series of "short answer"-type questions and answers for each of the common first-year law school subjects.

Essay Questions and Selected Answers: From the California Bar Examination (Call Number: KFC 76 .E87 Law Reserve for latest 5 years; older exams in Law Compact Storage) Essay questions and answers from past California bar exams. Check the front of each booklet to see if criminal procedure was an essay topic for that exam.

Beginning with the July 2001 exam, the State Bar's web site also has essay questions and selected answers. From the home page of the State Bar of California, follow the path: "Home > Bar Exam > Examination Results⁄Statistics."

PMBR Multistate Workbook (Call Number: KF 388 .M82x 1999 Law Circulation) A set of workbooks with multiple-choice questions and answers designed to prepare test takers for the Multistate Bar Examination.

Lewis R. Katz & Neil P. Cohen, Questions & Answers. Criminal Procedure I & II (Police Practices and Prosecution): Multiple Choice and Short Answer Questions and Answers (2003). (Call Number: KF 9619.85 .K38 2003 Law Circulation).

Brian N. Siegel, Siegel's Criminal Procedure: Essay and Multiple Choice Questions and Answers (Siegel's Series, 3d ed., 1998). Law Open Reserve

Authorized Lexis users may find selected criminal procedure sources on Lexis.com in the "Search Advisor."

Once you log on to lexis.com, click on the "Search Advisor" tab, then scroll down for the legal topic "Criminal Law & Procedure."

Researchers can find more criminal procedure sources on Lexis by following this path in the "Legal" tab of the "Look for a Source" directory:

Area of Law - By Topic > Criminal Law

Authorized users will find these criminal procedure materials on Westlaw -

The third edition of Cook's treatise Constitutional Rights of the Accused is on Westlaw in the database CONRTACC

The second edition of LaFave's treatise Criminal Procedure is on Westlaw in the database CRIMPROC

The third edition of LaFave's treatise Search and Seizure by LaFave is on Westalw in the database SEARCHSZR.

The second edition of Ringel's treatise Searches & Seizures, Arrests and Confessions is on Westlaw in the database SSAC

An introduction to the issues involved in Criminal Procedure can be found in Jay M. Feinman, Law 101, 2d ed., Chapter 9 "Protecting the Innocent, Freeing the Guilty: Criminal Procedure" (2006) (Call Number: KF 387 .F45 2006 Law Open Reserve).

For a historical overview of the origins of the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, and the Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination and double jeopardy, and the requirement for an indictment by a grand jury, see Leonard W. Levy, Origins of the Bill of Rights (1999) (Call Number: KF 4749 .L488 1999 Law Stacks).

For an interesting dramatization of pre-Warren Court police procedures, you might be interested in the 1954 Warner Bros. film Dragnet starring Jack Webb. (Call number: PN 1997 .D72 1982 LAW RES AV.)

*Call numbers in this guide are to USF Zief Law Library materials. Hyperlinks from the call numbers take you to the record for the item in Ignacio, the catalog for the USF libraries.