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The Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive the System
The Criminal Law Handbook Know Your Rights Survive the System Author:Paul Bergman, Sara J. Berman-Barrett The best plain-English book on criminal law available! — Do you know what happens when you are accused of a crime? How you are charged? How plea bargains work? What happens in court? — Anyone who needs answers to these questions -- people accused of a crime, victims of crime, their families and friends, witnesses and those who want to know how the... more » system works -- can turn to a plain-English legal book for the information they need.
With The Criminal Law Handbook, you can learn exactly what goes on in a criminal case. The easy-to-follow, question-and-answer format covers:
*arrests *booking *preliminary hearings *charges *bail *courts *arraignment *search and seizure *defenses *evidence *trials *plea bargains *sentencing *juveniles *"crimespeak," the language commonly used in criminal statutes *and much more
The 7th edition covers all of the latest Supreme Court cases and changes in criminal law.« less