Successful Techniques for Criminal Trials

• NCJ Number: 139987
• Author(s): F L Bailey; H B Rothblatt
• Date Published: 1992
• Length: 1070 pages
• Sale Source: Clark Boardman Callaghan
• Publication Type: Overview Text
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: 2nd edition, with cumulative supplement issued October 1992

Annotation

This volume presents and explains the techniques used successfully by the authors and other criminal lawyers in the United States, Canada, and England.

Abstract

The text provides guidelines for use by attorneys in relation to arrest, confinement, and preliminary hearing; arraignment and pleas; the suppression of evidence; jury selection; the handling of each phase of the trial; sentencing; judicial misconduct; jury misconduct; and military law and justice. Emphasis is placed on client and witness preparation, including the use of hypnosis, counseling the client at lineups, and plea bargaining. New materials focus on assessing and attacking the credibility of witnesses, psychological influences on eyewitness identification, the defendant as witness, jury misconduct, severance of defendants, and courtroom appearance for both attorney and client. Footnotes, chapter reference lists, and index