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

Bergman, Paul; Berman-Barrett, Sara J.

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9781413303568: The Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive the System

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ISBN 10: 1413303560 ISBN 13: 9781413303568

Publisher: Nolo, 2005

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Do you know what happens when you are accused of a crime? How you are charged? How plea bargains work? What happens in court? Anyone who needs answers to these questions -- people accused of a crime, victims of crime, their families and friends, witnesses and those who want to know how the system works -- can turn to a plain-English legal book for the information they need.The easy-to-follow, question-and-answer format covers: � arrests and booking � preliminary hearings � charges � bail � courts � arraignment � search and seizure � defenses � evidence � trials � plea bargains � sentencing � juveniles � "crimespeak," the language commonly used in criminal statutes The 7th edition covers all of the latest changes in criminal law and Supreme Court cases, including a new section on white-collar crime. It also includes new information about capital punishment, imprisonment data and bail.

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No one's above the law, but nearly everyone breaks it at some point or another. Whether it's flashing lights pulling you over to the side or an auditor looking grimly through your tax receipts, there may come a time when you'll want to know more, in a personal sort of way, about arraignments and voir dire, habeas corpus, and just how bail works. Lawyers Bergman and Berman-Barrett cover it all in a straightforward, uncomplicated manner. Addressing police questioning and the law of search and seizure, criminal defense options and common defense strategies, acceptable courtroom behavior, basic criminal trial rules, and a walk through the trial process to parole, this is a strikingly accessible tome of information one hopes to never need. But in the event that you do, it's here and available in the kind of language you can understand and the wealth of detail and example you can use. --Stephanie Gold

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