Criminal Law Handbook, The: Know Your Rights, Survive the System

Criminal Law Handbook, The: Know Your Rights, Survive the System

Criminal Law Handbook, The: Know Your Rights, Survive the System

Criminal Law Handbook, The: Know Your Rights, Survive the System

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Overview

The Criminal Law Handbook demystifies the criminal justice system. It explains—in plain English—how the system works, why police, lawyers, and judges do what they do, and what suspects, defendants, and prisoners can expect. This reference book covers the criminal process from stops on the street to arrest, bail, plea bargains, trials, sentencing, and appeals. Learn about defendants’ constitutional rights, common defenses, defense strategies, and more.

With this book, you can make sense of courtroom legalese (voir dire, ex parte, arraignment, indictment), unravel and understand criminal rules of procedure and evidence, and learn through everyday examples of the system at work. The authors provide useful and critical information in an easy-to-understand question-and-answer format. Whatever prompts your interest, the criminal justice system belongs to you and you have a right to know how it works.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781413329391
Publisher: NOLO
Publication date: 01/25/2022
Edition description: Seventeenth Edition
Pages: 656
Sales rank: 71,446
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Paul Bergman is a Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law and a recipient of two University Distinguished Teaching Awards. His books include Nolo’s Deposition Handbook (with Moore, Nolo); Reel Justice: The Courtroom Goes to the Movies (with Asimow, Andrews McMeel); Trial Advocacy: Inferences, Arguments, Techniques (with Moore and Binder, West Publishing Co.) Trial Advocacy in a Nutshell (West Publishing Co.); Represent Yourself in Court: How to Prepare & Try a Winning Case (with Berman, Nolo); Depositions in a Nutshell (with Moore, Binder, and Light, West Publishing Co.); Lawyers as Counselors: A Client-Centered Approach (with Binder, Tremblay, and Weinstein, West Publishing Co); Evidence Law and Practice (with Friedland and Benham); Cracking the Case Method (with Goodman and Holm, West Academic Publishing); Evidence Law and Practice (with Friedland and Benham, Carolina Academic Press); and You Matter: Ten Spiritual Commitments for a Richer and More Meaningful Life (with Rabbi Mark Borovitz, AuthorHouse). Paul has also published numerous articles in law journals. And, using clips from law-related films, he regularly gives presentations to lawyers, judges, and community groups.

Sara Berman is a graduate of the UCLA School of Law. Sara currently serves as the Director of Academic and Bar Success Programs for the AccessLex Center for Legal Education Excellence. She has served for decades in faculty and administrative leadership roles in law schools in California and Florida, and is the author of numerous articles and books, including Pass the Bar Exam: A Practical Guide to Achieving Academic & Professional Goals and Bar Exam MPT Preparation & Experiential Learning For Law Students: Interactive Performance Test Training, both published by the American Bar Association. Sara is also the co-author along with Paul Bergman of Nolo’s Represent Yourself in Court: How to Prepare and Try a Winning Civil Case.

Table of Contents

Introduction







1. Talking to the Police







2. Search and Seizure







3. Arrest: When It Happens, What It Means







4. Eyewitness Identification: Psychology and Procedures







5. Booking and Bail: Checking In and Out of Jail







6. From Suspect to Defendant







7. Criminal Defense Lawyers







8. Understanding the Attorney-Client Relationship in a Criminal Case







9. A Walk Through Criminal Court







10. Arraignments







11. Developing the Defense Strategy







12. Crimespeak: Understanding the Language of Criminal Laws







13. Defensespeak: Common Defenses to Criminal Charges







14. Discovery: Exchanging Information With the Prosecution







15. Investigating the Facts







16. Preliminary Hearings







17. Fundamental Trial Rights of the Defense







18. Basic Evidence Rules in Criminal Trials







19. Motions and Their Role in Criminal Cases







20. Plea Bargains: How Most Criminal Cases End







21. The Trial Process







22. Sentencing







23. Appeals







24. How the Criminal Justice System Works







25. Juvenile Courts and Procedures







26. Prisoners' Rules







27. Looking Up the Law







Glossary

Interviews

The Criminal Law Handbook is written in an easy-to-understand question-and-answer format. It explains the criminal justice system inside and outside the courtroom.



Whatever prompts your interest, the criminal justice system belongs to you. You have a right to know how it works. This book tells you what you never learned in high school civics: how the system really works.

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