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This book guides the reader through the trial process, suggesting techniques and strategies for each stage of the trial process—pretrial, trial, and post-trial motions; jury selection; opening statements; direct and cross-examination; and closing arguments.

This book is an abridged version of the same title. This abridged version provides cases and materials on agency law and on unincorporated business entities: general partnerships, limited partnerships, and limited liability companies. This edition is particularly designed for one or two credit hour courses that are limited to these topics.

Two significant complications affect the taxation of property transactions. The first complication is the special treatment of capital gains and losses. The second complication arises from the time value of money. This book aims to provide students with an appreciation for these two significant complexities through the descriptive materials and problems presented.

As the title implies, this book covers the fundamentals of criminology, including the major theories of crime causation, classic and current empirical tests of those theories, and the strengths and weaknesses and policy implications of each.

Every tort claim for relief, and every affirmative tort defense, has a set of required elements. It is the student's task to learn these elements and to develop an understanding about how to apply them to real and hypothetical fact patterns. Questions & Answers: Torts can help you with this task. The book includes 202 questions - some tough and some relatively easy - organized by topic.

West Virginia’s Criminal Justice System is a practical examination of crime, process, and policy responses in the "Mountain State". This book gives readers an opportunity to closely evaluate these issues as they are relevant to West Virginia.

As an introductory guide, the goal of this book is to provide students of law enforcement, criminalists, members of the justice system, law enforcement professionals, and anyone interested in the field a starting point in understanding the pivotal relationship between police, the investigator, and the scientist in service of the law.

Using case law as well as policy documents and key legislation, this book covers a diverse range of legal issues, including constitutional framework, criminal procedure, interrogation and surveillance involving both domestic and involving foreign intelligence subjects, protection and litigation of state secrets and classified information, war powers, civil rights, targeted killings, military justice, international law, detainees, and much more.

The primary audience for this book is first-year law students but also includes practitioners, paralegals, and college students, who need to become familiar with researching Michigan resources. The text comprehensively covers the sources of Michigan law and gives strategies for effective and efficient research of Michigan legal issues.

This book explores how state emergency laws impact constitutional civil liberties by examining the experiences of Hurricane Katrina's involuntary heroes, those whose civil liberties were infringed upon by the government and who ultimately received little to no redress in the judicial system for their suffering.