The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
This title offers a comprehensive and practical guide to criminal litigation. It weaves together theory and practice, making use of case studies to assist students and illustrate how to put their understanding in a practical context.
This casebook provides the most comprehensive treatment available, including the theoretical foundations, the common-law origins, the statutory structure, and the procedural context of modern criminal law. The book concentrates on doctrinal materials that can support both rigorous technical and sophisticated theoretical discussions. The purposes and limits of punishment are addressed through Supreme Court decisions, a focus on statutes throughout the substantive law sections enables training students in the legal art of statutory interpretation as well as exposing them to the hard moral and political problems of legislative choice, and the sentencing materials reprise the theory of punishment in the context of the practically most important stage of the modern process. The 12th edition carries forward the comprehensive approach of prior editions, empowering the teacher to design a course suited to the needs of the teacher's students and teacher's institution. New Supreme Court's decisions, changing the landscape of both substance and procedure, include Skilling v. United States, McDonald v. City of Chicago, Graham v. Florida, United States v. Jones, and Michigan v. Bryant. The material on self-defense has been comprehensively revised, both for the sake of clarity and to include discussion of so-called "stand your ground laws." Statutes (e.g., the New York and California homicide statutes) and the caselaw (e.g., up-to-the-minute material on "willful blindness") have been updated. We also now include a case about the admissibility of neuro-imaging evidence to support a diminished-capacity defense, thus acknowledging how modern brain science has begun to raise both practical evidentiary issues and a substantial challenge to important theoretical premises of the criminal law.
Fully revised and updated to include all recent legislation, this edition provides comprehensive coverage of all the major criminal law documents needed by undergraduates. It also includes unannotated primary and secondary legislation and detailed tables of content to aid quick and efficient research.
Judiciously organized and edited, Cases on Criminal Procedure, 2017-2018, offers a collection of Supreme Court cases that illustrate the underpinnings of police practice. This succinct and adaptable text raises a wide range of questions about the processing of criminals through the American justice system--a process that is described in the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments of the Constitution. Spanning 100 years of Supreme Court rulings with a focus on the last 55 years, Cases on Criminal Procedure, 2017-2018 features: Historical perspective on the shifting interpretations of the Court under the leadership of Chief Justices Warren, Burger, Rehnquist, and Roberts Up-to-date cases: Rodriguez v. United States, Birchfield v. North Dakota, Utah v. Strieff, and Los Angeles v. Patel A deep and broad case selection, along with full voting histories for each case Succinct, accessible chapter introductions that identify salient theses and issues and provide discussion of insights from legal theory The full text of the relevant Constitutional Amendments and a chart of Supreme Court Justices from 1940 to the present
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