The fourteenth edition continues the book’s commitment to offering the most comprehensive, rigorous, and flexible materials on the American criminal process. the new edition includes:
- Full case treatment of United States v. Davis, 139 S.Ct. 2319 (2019), illustrating the Supreme Court’s continued commitment to a robust understanding of the void-for-vagueness doctrine;
- An updated treatment of homicide in general, with particular attention paid to a new wave of hostility to the felony murder doctrine, including full case treatment of Commonwealth v. Brown, 477 Mass. 805, 81 N.E.3d (2017), abolishing the doctrine by statutory interpretation, and People v. Swanson, 57 Cal.App.5th 604 (Ca. App. 2020), applying S.B. No. 1437, a reform statute that curtailed both felony murder and the natural-and-probable consequences doctrine in homicide prosecutions.
- Full case treatment of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), a decision exemplifying the Court’s approach to imputing culpable mental states to conduct and circumstance elements in criminal statutes;
