This statutory and case supplement incorporates the latest statutory changes and proposed revisions and the most recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions bearing on evidence law.The statutory component of this volume reflects the new amendments to Federal Rules of Evidence 801(d)(1)(B), 803(6)(E), 803(7)(C), and 803(8)(B), all of which took effect on December 1, 2014. Also included are proposals …
This book will assist your learning and exam preparation in criminal procedure courses and for the bar exam. The subject matter of the book extends to all major subjects covered in criminal procedure courses. Some schools divide criminal procedure courses into Criminal Procedure I (police practices) and II (prosecution). This book includes the material in …
Think all California police officer study guides are the same? Think again! With easy to understand lessons and practice test questions designed to maximize your score, you’ll be ready. You don’t want to waste time – and money! – retaking an exam. You want to accelerate your education, not miss opportunities for starting your future career! Every year, …
Glannon Guide To Evidence: Learning Evidence Through Multiple-Choice Questions and Analysis
The proven Glannon Guide is a user-friendly study aid to use throughout the semester as a great supplement to (or substitute for) classroom lecture. Topics are broken down into manageable pieces and are explained in a conversational tone. Chapters are interspersed with hypotheticals like those posed in the classroom that include analysis of answers to ensure thorough understanding. …
Understand better what you’re learning in Criminal Law class and prepare effectively for exams by applying concepts as you learn them. This study guide includes over 150 multiple-choice and short-answer questions arranged topically for ease of use during the semester, plus an additional set of 16 questions comprising a comprehensive “”practice exam.”” For each multiple-choice question, Attorney …
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American society.Following the 1890 census, the first to measure the generation of African Americans born after slavery, crime statistics, new …
Criminal Law: Cases & Materials, Seventh Edition (Aspen Casebook Series)
Criminal Law: Cases and Materials has long been respected for its distinguished authorship. The late John Kaplan’s extraordinary work continues with the scholarship of Robert Weisberg and Guyora Binder. Their renowned interdisciplinary approach fuels class discussion as it enriches study. Logically organized into six categories, the text addresses the purposes and limits of punishment and considers the meaning …
Get the Truth: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Persuade Anyone to Tell All
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Getting someone to tell the truth is an essential skill that very few people possess. In the boardroom, classroom, or our own homes, every day we interact with others and try to get the truth from them. This book will show you how to do it, and do it well! People …
MEDICOLEGAL INVESTIGATION OF DEATH, known as the ‘bible’ of forensic pathology to pathologists around the world, has withstood the test of time, recently celebrating its twentieth year of publication. Totally rewritten and updated throughout, the text is oriented to forensic pathologists, criminal investigators, and attorneys. It embraces all aspects of the pathology of trauma as it is witnessed …
Hellhound on His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt in American History
NATIONAL BESTSELLEREdgar Award NomineeOne of the Best Books of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine, Time, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, San Francisco ChronicleWith a New AfterwordOn April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Motel. The nation was shocked, enraged, and saddened. As chaos erupted across the …