Texas Criminal Lawyer's Handbook

ebook Volume 2 · Texas Criminal Lawyer's Handbook (2023)

By Robert K. Gill

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REVISION 24 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::

SEARCH AND SEIZURE: PROPERTY AND PERSONS

  • New! Anticipatory Warrants
  • Warrantless search/seizure based on exigent circumstance of imminent destruction of evidence
  • New! Attenuation of Taint Doctrine
  • Determining when a police encounter becomes a seizure or investigative detention

    RIGHT TO COUNSEL / EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL

  • Failing to object when state amends an indictment
  • Scope of right against self-incrimination
  • What constitutes a promise of immunity from prosecution
  • Court's role in relation to dismissal resulting from immunity agreement

    CONFESSIONS

  • New! Appellate Review of Confession Issues
  • New! Factors Rendering a Confession Involuntary – Failure to Give Consular Warning

    PRETRIAL MOTIONS

  • Motion to disqualify judge
  • Motion for change of venue on grounds of prejudice due to pretrial publicity
  • Constitutional speedy trial motions

    TRIAL

  • New! Inadvertent References to Extraneous Offenses
  • New! Defendant's Right to Present a Defense
  • New! Defendant's Right to be Present at Trial
  • Lesser included offenses

    POST-TRIAL ISSUES

  • Determining impact of non-constitutional error on jury's verdict
  • New! Determining whether constitutional error contributed to conviction/punishment
  • Discharge of multiple concurrent fines

    AND MORE!

  • Texas Criminal Lawyer's Handbook