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May It Please the Court: The Most Significant Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955
Author: Peter H. Irons
ISBN-10: 1565840526
ISBN-13: 9781565840522
Published: 1994-09-01
Publisher: New Press, The
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This unique insider's look at the Supreme Court in session includes transcripts of actual landmark cases, including Miranda v. Arizona (the right to remain silent), Roe v. Wade (abortion rights), Bowers v. Hardwick (gay rights), Regents v. Bakke (reverse discrimination), Loving v. Virginia (interracial marriage), United States v. Richard Nixon (Watergate), and many others. Previously only available through a visit to the National Archive in Washington, these transcripts bring pivotal moments in American legal history to life.
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Nolo's Deposition Handbook
Author: Paul Bergman J.D. J.D. J.D. J.D. J.D. J.D. J.D. J.D. J.D. J.D. J.D. J.D. J.D.
ISBN-10: 1413311997
ISBN-13: 9781413311990
Published: 2010-06-03
Publisher: Nolo
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Take the mystery out of your deposition with this comprehensive guide. Getting deposed? Here's the book you need. Nolo's Deposition Handbook is for anyone who will conduct a deposition or will be deposed; providing all the information, tips and instructions you need whether or not you're represented by a lawyer. Packed with concrete suggestions and examples, the book explains how to arrange a convenient date, prepare for the deposition, respond to questions with aplomb and ask the right questions. You'll even learn the three "golden rules" for answering questions and the trick questions lawyers often use to influence testimony. Written by two UCLA law professors and attorneys, Nolo's Deposition Handbook provides all the information you need to sail through the deposition process with confidence. A perfect book for law students, lawyers, legal assistants, witnesses, expert witnesses and people who represent themselves in court.
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Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong
Author: Brandon L. Garrett
ISBN-10: 0674058704
ISBN-13: 9780674058705
Published: 2011-04-04
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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On January 20, 1984, Earl Washington—defended for all of forty minutes by a lawyer who had never tried a death penalty case—was found guilty of rape and murder in the state of Virginia and sentenced to death. After nine years on death row, DNA testing cast doubt on his conviction and saved his life. However, he spent another eight years in prison before more sophisticated DNA technology proved his innocence and convicted the guilty man.DNA exonerations have shattered confidence in the criminal justice system by exposing how often we have convicted the innocent and let the guilty walk free. In this unsettling in-depth analysis, Brandon Garrett examines what went wrong in the cases of the first 250 wrongfully convicted people to be exonerated by DNA testing.Based on trial transcripts, Garrett’s investigation into the causes of wrongful convictions reveals larger patterns of incompetence, abuse, and error. Evidence corrupted by suggestive eyewitness procedures, coercive interrogations, unsound and unreliable forensics, shoddy investigative practices, cognitive bias, and poor lawyering illustrates the weaknesses built into our current criminal justice system. Garrett proposes practical reforms that rely more on documented, recorded, and audited evidence, and less on fallible human memory. Very few crimes committed in the United States involve biological evidence that can be tested using DNA. How many unjust convictions are there that we will never discover? Convicting the Innocent makes a powerful case for systemic reforms to improve the accuracy of all criminal cases. (20110529)
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
Author: Nat Turner
ISBN-10: 1617206334
ISBN-13: 9781617206337
Published: 2012-02-09
Publisher: SMK Books
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The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia, is a first-hand account of Turner's confessions published by a local lawyer, Thomas Ruffin Gray, in 1831
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Spartanburg County, S.C. 1827-1852, Deed Abstracts
Author: Albert Bruce Pruitt
ISBN-10: 0893087424
ISBN-13: 9780893087425
Published: 2000-01
Publisher: Southern Historical Pr
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Hope Springs Eternal in the Priestly Breast: A Research Study on Procedural Justice for Priests-Diocesan and Religious
Author: Ph D James Valladares
ISBN-10: 1462072410
ISBN-13: 9781462072415
Published: 2012-04-06
Publisher: iUniverse
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The clergy abuse scandal has posed the greatest threat to the traditional understanding of the Catholic priesthood since the Protestant Reformation. Now, as then, the deadliest attacks are coming from within the Church. In an attempt to improve a syste
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Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire
Author: Paul D. Halliday
ISBN-10: 0674064208
ISBN-13: 9780674064201
Published: 2012-04-02
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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We call habeas corpus the Great Writ of Liberty. But it was actually a writ of power. In a work based on an unprecedented study of thousands of cases across more than five hundred years, Paul Halliday provides a sweeping revisionist account of the world's most revered legal device. In the decades around 1600, English judges used ideas about royal power to empower themselves to protect the king's subjects. The key was not the prisoner's "right" to "liberty"—these are modern idioms—but the possible wrongs committed by a jailer or anyone who ordered a prisoner detained. This focus on wrongs gave the writ the force necessary to protect ideas about rights as they developed outside of law. This judicial power carried the writ across the world, from Quebec to Bengal. Paradoxically, the representative impulse, most often expressed through legislative action, did more to undermine the writ than anything else. And the need to control imperial subjects would increasingly constrain judges. The imperial experience is thus crucial for making sense of the broader sweep of the writ's history and of English law. Halliday's work informed the 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Boumediene v. Bush on prisoners in the Guantánamo detention camps. His eagerly anticipated book is certain to be acclaimed the definitive history of habeas corpus. (20100417)
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BRB's Guide to County Court Records: A National Resource to Criminal, Civil, and Probate Records Found at the Nation's County, Parish, and Municipal Courts
Author: Michael Sankey
ISBN-10: 1889150576
ISBN-13: 9781889150574
Published: 2011-10-16
Publisher: Facts On Demand Press
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Locate the public record information you can't find with Google . . . or any other online search engine. The Sourcebook provides the information the reader needs to efficiently access public records from over 7,000 courthouses nationwide. This comprehensive resource provides detailed court profiles including contact information, access methodology, access restrictions, and when signed releases or notarized statements are required. Also, this is the only directory that provides access, copy and certification fees
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Journey with "Justice"
Author: Dan Schrock
ISBN-10: 1618631713
ISBN-13: 9781618631718
Published: 2012-04-11
Publisher: Bookstand Publishing
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The Complete Court Reporter's Handbook (3rd Edition)
Author: Mary H. Knapp
ISBN-10: 013571365X
ISBN-13: 9780135713655
Published: 1998-10-26
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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This practical guide presents all aspects of court reporting across a wide range of court and legal procedures. Packed with forms, sample written knowledge tests, and review questions, this book provides an excellent source of information about how court reporters function in the real world. Serving as a hands-on OHow toO reference on different aspects of Court Reporting, this important resource covers various types of reporting assignments; how to administer oaths; how to report interrogatories, statements, and depositions; how to handle parentheticals, objections, exhibits, and interpreted proceedings; how to take and transcribe court cases, computer-aided transcription, word-processing, daily copy, testing, and video grand jury work. It also covers topics such as ethics and notary public duties. Finally, it provides practical advice to typical problems encountered in the field. With a reorganized presentation, the third edition of "Legal Assisting/Court Reporting" has been revised to incorporate changes in technology and demonstrate how these changes affect the role of the court reporter. Among these new technologies are: realtime writing, computer-aided transcription, instantaneous viewing of the transcript, immediate recall of all litigation documents, closed-captioning for the hearing-impaired, Braille copy for the visually-impaired, and instant multi-language translation. The book also discusses the use of court reporting skills in a variety of other professions including rapid data entry specialists, medial transcriptionists, classroom captioners, business meeting reporters, and others. An essential reference for every law professional and court reporter.
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