Crimes of Violence: Rape and Other Sex Crimes

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Crimes of Violence: Rape and Other Sex Crimes provides step-by-step guidance through every phase of a sex-crime case from the initial client interview through summation to the jury. This title includes:

Expert advice on defense preparation
The insanity plea and plea bargaining
Suppression of evidence and jury selection
Sample motions, jury instructions, voir dire questions, and questions to witnesses
On-point references to American Law Reports, American Jurisprudence, and pertinent law review articles

The text concentrates on the major sex crime areas including:

Rape
Prostitution
Incest
Obscenity
Sodomy
Child abuse
Stalking
Interstate domestic violence

Summary of contents

Chapter
1. General Principles
2. The Fee
3. Fact Sheet
4. Surrendering Your Client
5. Initial Judicial Proceedings
6. Bail
7. Investigation Aids and Procedures
8. Locating Witnesses
9. Interviewing the Witnesses
10. The Preliminary Hearing
11. The Grand Jury
12. The Indictment
13. Change of Venue
14. Severance
15. Discovery
16. Suppression of Evidence
17. Plea Bargaining
18. The Jury
19. The Opening Statement
20. Cross-Examination
  1. Attacking Credibility of Prosecutrix
21. Direct Examination
22. Expert and Opinion Evidence
  1. Use of Mental-State Evidence
23. The Insanity Defense
  1. The Defense of Jury Nullification in a Forcible Rape Prosecution
24. The Summation
  1. Pre-Sentencing Reports
25. Rape
26. Prostitution and Related Offenses
27. Incest
28. Obscenity
29. Sodomy
30. Homosexuality
31. Sexual Psychopath Legislation
32. Criminal Liability of Sex Therapists
33. Past Sexual Behavior of Alleged Victims
34. Attacking Eyewitnesses Testimony
35. Child Abuse
36. DNA Testing
37. Stalking
38. Interstate Domestic Violence
Appendix A – 1984 Insanity Defense Reform Act U.S.C.A. § 17
Table of Forms