The Constitution and Criminal Procedure.(Review)

By Akhil Reed Amar. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. 272p. $35.00 cloth, $16.00 paper.

Robert C. Bradley, Illinois State University

Akhil Reed Amar's The Constitution and Criminal Procedure is an extremely well-researched, thought-provoking analysis of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth amendments to the Constitution. Amar examines these specific amendments in part because of a perceived split between scholarship on the Constitution and that focusing on criminal procedure. He contends that scholars are well versed either on constitutional principles and case law or on ...

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