Trial Handbook for Illinois Lawyers – Criminal helps you master the details of criminal practice and evaluate potential complications before they occur at trial. This set provides:
- Guidance for every stage of a criminal trial
- Extensive references and annotations to statutes and Illinois caselaw
- An itemized table of contents and a fact word index
- Clear and concise discussions of critical procedural and substantive aspects of practicing trial law
- Analysis of recent trial caselaw, rules, and statutes
Topics include:
- Pretrial proceedings
- Motions during trial
- Continuances
- The rights of the accused
- Right to counsel and pro se defense
- Defenses
- Alibis
- Entrapment
- Insanity and mental illness
- Juries
- Opening statements
- Burden of proof
- Proof of facts
- Use of stipulations
- Witnesses
- Compelling production of documents
- Evidence
- Direct examination of witnesses
- Cross-examining
- Redirect and recross-examination
- Attorney-client privilege
- Medical testimony
- Confessions and admissions
- Miranda warnings
- Mistrial
- The verdict and judgment