Criminal procedures

Criminal Procedures: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials was first published in 2003 by Marc Miller and Ronald Wright. Developed to serve as a comprehensive teaching tool for law students, the text emerged from a pedagogical shift toward incorporating a wider array of materials beyond traditional appellate court opinions, such as statutes, police manuals, and office policies, to better reflect the realities of the criminal justice system.

The design of the work prioritizes a 'prosecution and defense' perspective, intentionally structured to show the impact of legal procedures on day-to-day practice. By moving away from a strictly theoretical approach, the authors sought to provide a more empirical and contextualized view of constitutional criminal procedure. It has been widely adopted in American law schools and remains a standard fixture in legal curricula, consistently updated through successive editions to account for evolving case law.