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Lexis Nexis Texas Criminal Lawyer's Handbook
Considered by many to be the most comprehensive and respected criminal practice guide in Texas. Covering more than 250 topics, it provides in-depth practice advice on constitutional rights, documentary evidence, scientific evidence, impeachment techniques, and much more.
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REVISION 23 HIGHLIGHTS
This new edition of Texas Criminal Lawyer’s Handbook will keep you on the cutting edge of Texas criminal law, practice, and procedure, with new and updated coverage of a broad range of issues, including:
CELL PHONE WARRANTS
CONFESSIONS
- Jury charge on the voluntariness of a waiver under Art. 38.22
- Statements to inmates: what constitutes an agency relationship
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
- Dual sovereignty: when a single act that violates a tribal ordinance and a federal statute
- Multiple punishments in a single trial
- Collateral estoppel as a bar to a subsequent trial
PRETRIAL MOTIONS
- First Amendment challenge to charging instruments: harassment statutes
- Rule governing the state’s authority to abandon a portion of the charging instrument
- Asserting a statute of limitations violation
BAIL AND BOND ISSUES
- Revocation of Bond
- Amount of Bond Set
PRETRIAL MOTIONS
- Constitutional Challenges
- Withdrawal of Plea
DISCOVERY
- Informer’s identity privilege
- Defendant’s burden on motion to reveal identity of confidential informant
JURY SELECTION AND VOIR DOIR
- Bias or Prejudice as Matter of Law
- Preservation of Error for Denial of Defense Challenges for Cause
TRIAL
- Admissibility of extraneous drug offenses under Rule 403
- Evaluating the reasonableness of the use of deadly force
- Test for a lesser-included offense instruction
EVIDENCE
- Admissibility of jailhouse recordings
- Admission of unconfronted testimonial hearsay violates the Confrontation Clause
PUNISHMENT
- Judicial clemency and defendant’s discharge from community supervision
- Instruction re: accomplice witness testimony in punishment phase of a capital trial
AND MORE!
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