Criminal Procedure

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What is Criminal Procedure?

The mandated procedures by which crimes are investigated, prosecuted, adjudicated, and punished. That body of rules and laws that which govern the procedural administration of criminal justice. Example: Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.

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