Author Description

The new Fifth contains detailed and authoritative commentary, extensive discussion of practical problems, highlighted treatment of recent lower court cases which present interesting fact situations and legal analysis, full consideration of Supreme Court cases and, most of all, questions which challenge readers' conceptions and analytical powers. Some new features of the book include the addition of over 1000 headnotes to pinpoint discussion and add to the readability of the book; full case treatment of important new Supreme Court cases on such topics as drug testing and double jeopardy; additional scholarly commentary on such topics such as the exclusionary rule and plea bargaining in the shadow of the Sentencing Guidelines; extensive new section on how the Sentencing Guidelines operate.