Defender Sentencing Book


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Sentencing Defense Manual


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This work provides a single-volume step-by-step guide to the preparation of effective defense pre-sentence investigation reports. It has been designed to guide defense practitioners throughout the entire postconviction advocacy process, and discusses: how to profile the mitigating factors in each case, provide your client with an opportunity to be seen as an individual and not solely as a criminal, and many other topics.







Trial Manual for Defense Attorneys in Juvenile Delinquency Cases


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This massive book, in over 1,000 pages and 39 chapters, is a complete how-to guidebook for handling juvenile court cases from beginning to end. This is a manual for defense attorneys. While it contains some material that may also be useful to other players in the system, it does not analyze subjects falling outside of a defense attorneys obligations. This complete guide will make any attorney faced with the situation more in charge and at ease.




Trial Advocacy and Criminal Law Practice


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This is a concise manual on how to win jury trials, particularly in criminal cases. I am a criminal defense attorney with twelve years experience and forty jury trials under my belt. From jury selection to opening statements, questioning witnesses to closing arguments, this short book covers it all, from my perspective as an experienced trial lawyer. The manual also covers several areas of criminal law practice, including client relations, pitfalls of practice, the business of law, sentencing, and the rules of professional conduct.