crim law advice?

[Mozart711]

What is the best supplemental for crim law?

[sharpchick]

It probably depends on how your professor teaches the class, so I would first ask upperclassmen at your school who had him before ... but, Dressler's "Understanding Criminal Law" by Lexis has helped me immensely (and I'm reading it right now

[cesco]

I would agree. Dressler is excellent.

[jacy85]

I also loved the Dressler's Understanding book.

[WKRUSE]

His CD's are good too.  They were much more common law oriented than my professor, who taught mostly MPC.  They were still very helpful though.

[JD07]

I agree Dressler's stuff is great. 

[LostMyMonkeys]

It depends. My bible was the E&E, but there is another professor who specifically said she disagreed with a lot of stuff in there. To me it was great on policy and stuff, which my prof was HUGE on.

[Stacie]

We were assigned Dressler, and I didn't read beyond the assignments, so I can't speak to its usefulness as a supplement...but it was decent for actual course reading.

Our exam format was short answer, AND open book/note -- and the exam was designed so you actually needed your book and notes (i.e. look up this WI statute we didn't ever study, analyze it using the canons we did study, then compare it to the MPC equivalent that we also didn't study).Supplements would have been useless. Your mileage, of course, may vary.

[Mozart711]

Thanks...I used the Understanding Crim law by Dressler, but got the book only a few days ago. I feel that if I found it sooner I would have done much better on that damn exam today. Thanks again.