Texas Criminal & Traffic Procedural Manual: 2024-2025 Ed.

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CURRENT EDITION 2024-2025 Edition
VOLUMES 1
PAGES 1286
AUTHOR Larry E. Holtz
ESTIMATED NEXT EDITION DATE August 31, 2026
LAST RELEASE DATE August 21, 2024
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Authors Holtz and Spencer take an innovative approach to the study and practical application of the cases and statutes for the laws of arrest, search and seizure.

Authors Holtz and Spencer take an innovative approach to the study and practical application of modern criminal procedure. The book dissects and analyzes critical court cases involving the laws of arrest, search and seizure, investigative detentions (including stop and frisk, and motor vehicle stops), interviews, confessions and Miranda, the right to counsel, identification procedures, evidence, and law enforcement liability. Texas Criminal & Traffic Procedural Manual is a critical resource for law enforcement agencies and criminal justice professionals.

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

  • PREFACE
  • THE AUTHORS
  • SUMMARY OF CONTENTS
  • DETAILED ANALYSIS OF CONTENTS
  • READING GUIDE

PART I: ARREST, SEARCH AND SEIZURE

  • CHAPTER 1. ARREST

    • Introduction
    • Probable cause requirement
    • Arrest with warrant
    • Arrest without warrant
      • Offense within view
      • Offense within view of magistrate
      • Authority of peace officers
      • When a felony has been committed
      • Preventing consequences of theft
      • Arrests outside officer’s primary jurisdiction
    • Entry of a dwelling to effect an arrest
    • Use of force to effect an arrest
    • Substantive and procedural due process of law
      • Substantive due process
      • Procedural due process
  • CHAPTER 2. SEARCH WARRANTS

    • Introduction: The written warrant requirement
    • Judicial requirements
      • The neutral and detached magistrate
      • The oath or affirmation
    • The probable cause requirement
      • Sources of information
      • The totality-of-the-circumstances test
      • Staleness
      • Anticipatory search warrants
      • Attacking the sufficiency or integrity of the affidavit
    • The particularity requirement
      • The places to be searched
      • The things to be seized
    • Search warrant execution
      • Time
      • Entry
      • Scope of the search
      • Search warrant return
  • CHAPTER 3. EXCEPTIONS TO THE WRITTEN WARRANT REQUIREMENT

    • Introduction
    • Search incident to a lawful arrest
      • The person of the arrestee and the area within his control
      • Motor vehicle searches incident to arrest
    • Exigent circumstances
      • Easily lost or destroyed evidence
      • Dangerous weapons or instrumentalities
      • Emergency aid and community caretaking functions
    • Impounded vehicles and inventory searches
    • Motor vehicles: The “automobile exception”
    • Consent
      • Introduction
      • Voluntariness
      • Third parties: Common and apparent authority
      • Scope of consent
  • CHAPTER 4. PRIVACY EXPECTATIONS: THE LIMITS OF CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION

    • Privacy expectations
    • Open fields
    • Plain view
    • Abandonment
  • CHAPTER 5. NON-GOVERNMENTAL SEARCHES

    • Introduction
    • Cases and materials
  • CHAPTER 6. REGULATORY AND ADMINISTRATIVE SEARCHES; BORDER SEARCHES

    • Regulatory and administrative searches
    • Border searches
  • CHAPTER 7. FIRE SCENES

    • The warrant requirement and fire-scene entries
    • Warrantless entries at the scene of a fire
  • CHAPTER 8. INVESTIGATIVE DETENTIONS; STOP AND FRISK

    • Introduction
    • Investigative detentions of persons
      • The point at which a “seizure” occurs
      • The “Terry stop”
      • Transporting suspects
      • The “Terry frisk”
    • Investigative detentions of vehicles
      • Introduction
      • Roadblocks/highway checkpoints
      • Motor vehicle stops and the “reasonable articulable suspicion” requirement
      • Removing drivers or passengers from the motor vehicle
      • The “Terry frisk” of the vehicle’s passenger compartment
    • Investigative detentions of property
  • CHAPTER 9. THE INDEPENDENT SOURCE DOCTRINE AND THE INEVITABLE DISCOVERY RULE

    • Preliminary
    • Cases and materials
  • CHAPTER 10. GOOD FAITH AND THE EXCLUSIONARY RULE

    • Preliminary
    • Cases and materials

PART II: CONFESSION LAW AND EYEWITNESS IDENTIFICATION

  • CHAPTER 11. INTERVIEWS; CONFESSIONS; AND MIRANDA

    • Introduction
    • Interviews and confessions—Preliminary issues
      • The corpus delicti rule
      • Custodial interrogation
        • What constitutes custody?
        • What constitutes interrogation?
    • Miranda
      • Administration; when to advise
      • Miranda and motor vehicle offenses
      • Public safety exception
      • Impeachment exception
    • Events surrounding the interrogation process
      • Invocation of rights
        • The right to remain silent
        • The right to counsel
      • Waiver of rights
        • Illegal detention
        • Outside influences
  • CHAPTER 12. EYEWITNESS IDENTIFICATION

    • Introduction
    • Preliminary issues
    • Showups and lineups
      • Showups
      • Lineups
    • Photo arrays

PART III: ADDENDA

  • THE OATH OF OFFICE
  • THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
  • CURRENT JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
  • CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: BILL OF RIGHTS
  • CURRENT JUDGES OF THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS
  • GLOSSARY OF TERMS FREQUENTLY USED IN CASE LAW ANALYSIS
  • TABLE OF CASES
  • INDEX
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