BarCharts Publishing, Inc was founded in 1991 with our law guides created by the owner attending law school. Since then many law professors, legal editors, and experts in their field of law have peer-reviewed, edited and updated the content, fine tuning the reference over 30 years. Designed to understand the significance of details within the larger scheme of the law, as a daily refresher, and to review before the Bar Exam. Reviewing and referencing essential details in a neatly organized tool offers a macro and micro view of Criminal Procedure which is valuable for understanding the whole of the law as the sum of its parts. We update our law guides for students, paralegals and practicing lawyers to have the most handy legal reference to the most important points of the law possible in 6 laminated pages. For such a great price you will not find another law reference this easy to purchase.
6 page laminated guide includes:
- NCBE/MBE Topics
- The 14th A. & its Incorporation by the States
- Incorporation Debate
- State & Federal Statutes & Rules
- Sources of Criminal Procedure Law
- Overview of a Criminal Proceeding
- Probable Cause for Arrest
- Police Station Booking
- Filing Charges
- First Appearance
- Preliminary Hearing
- Information or Indictment
- Arraignment
- Pretrial
- Motion for Discovery
- Trial
- The 4th A.: Right Against Unreasonable Search & Seizure
- Definitions & Limitations
- What is a Search?
- Seizures are Protected by the 4th A.
- Reasonableness
- Scope & Probable Cause
- Reasonable Suspicion
- Special Standards for Reasonableness: Balancing Approach
- Warrant Requirement of the 4th A.
- Search Warrants & Arrest Warrants
- Exceptions to Search Warrant
- Terry Stop: Warrantless Brief Detention & “Stop & Frisk”
- Reasonableness of Seizures
- Ad Hoc Balancing
- Administrative Searches
- Border Searches
- Judicial Doctrines
- Exclusionary Rule
- Fruit of the Poisonous Tree
- The 5th A.: Confessions
- Due Process:
- Involuntary Confession
- Voluntariness
- Miranda Rights
- Custody
- Interrogation
- Invocation of Rights: “Bright Line”
- Limitations
- Effect of Miranda Violation
- The 6th A.: Right to Counsel
- The 8th A.: Cruel & Unusual Punishment
