The Student Athlete’s Guide to the Criminal Justice System
(101 pages, Paperback)
- Can I get in trouble if I’m at a party and other people are smoking pot?
- I was pulled over for speeding—do I have to let the police search my car?
- If I’m arrested, what should I tell my coach—and the school?
The Student-Athlete’s Guide to the Criminal Justice System provides student-athletes, their families and their coaches with answers to these and other questions that may help them avoid legal problems and the repercussions of being arrested.
No one sets out with the goal of being arrested.
Student-athletes, like all people, will occasionally make bad decisions and take risks that can lead to an arrest, a criminal conviction or, worse yet, a jail term. The Student-Athlete’s Guide to the Criminal Justice System provides information not only to help student-athletes avoid making the bad decisions that lead to criminal problems, but also to help them successfully navigate the criminal justice system should criminal problems arise.
Written with the student in mind, The Student-Athlete’s Guide to the Criminal Justice System does not use complicated legal jargon. Instead, with straightforward language and a simple, easy-to-follow format, it examines some of the legal consequences for the crimes that student-athletes tend to commit and provides specific advice on how to avoid situations that may lead to an arrest. It also offers a step-by-step description of how cases are handled in the criminal justice system and summarizes what the student-athlete can expect to occur as a criminal case proceeds.
View sections of this book:
- Introduction (PDF)
- Chapter 4: Offenses Involving the Use of Alcohol by Minors (PDF))
- Chapter 15: Stay out of trouble by evaluating your “situation” (PDF)
- Chapter 27: Advice for all Court Appearances (PDF)
New York DWI Defense Forms, 2010 ed.
Book with CD-ROM
Provides examples of letters, motions and pleadings applicable at every stage of a DWI case, from arrest through appeal. Forms include a variety of documents and suggested motions. Topics covered include engagement letter, motion not to suspend license, discovery demands for wet chemical, infrared breath test, and chemical test refusal cases. Also includes Freedom of Information Act requests, motion to suppress evidence derived from unlawful stop and seizure, request for a FRYE hearing, Legal standard for intoxication v. impairment, Insufficient foundation for admission blood test, inspection of grand jury minutes, reduction of Felony DWI to misdemeanor, and notice of appeal.
Summary of Contents:
- Table of Contents
- Client Contact Forms
- Motion Regarding Client’s Driver Licenses
- Discovery Pleadings and Related Forms
- Preparing for a NY VTL § 1192 Prosecution
- Pre-Trial Motions
- Common Law DWI Trial Memoranda
- Breath and Blood Test Trial Memoranda
- Sufficiency of Evidence of Prior NY VTL § 1192 Convictions
- Sentencing Forms
- Post-Conviction Material
- Index
American Jurisprudence Trials
By Publisher’s Editorial Staff
- “Litigating a Driving While Intoxicated Case” in American Jurisprudence—Trials, Vol. 76, West Group, 2000
- “Trial Defenses to a Breath Test Score” in American Jurisprudence—Trials, Vol. 70, West Group, 1999
Provides examples of letters, motions and pleadings applicable at every stage of a DWI case, from arrest through appeal. Forms include a variety of documents and suggested motions. Topics covered include engagement letter, motion not to suspend license, discovery demands for wet chemical, infrared breath test, and chemical test refusal cases. Also includes Freedom of Information Act requests, motion to suppress evidence derived from unlawful stop and seizure, request for a FRYE hearing, Legal standard for intoxication v. impairment, Insufficient foundation for admission blood test, inspection of grand jury minutes, reduction of Felony DWI to misdemeanor, and notice of appeal.
Look Who’s Adopted
by Michael S. Taheri, Esq., and James F. Orr
Jenny Wegrzyn (Illustrator)
(Paperback)
Look Who’s Adopted is an illustrated book for adopted children at the early-to-middle reading levels. The book explores the different careers and activities that adopted people have undertaken. The book is narrated by Wendel, a turtle adopted by a family of rabbits. The book portrays different career avenues and civic duties adopted children can explore, and introduces them to adoptees who have found success in government, athletics, and other fields. It also includes a place for children to list adopted people that they personally know.