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Driving while impaired : confronting defense challenges and guidance for law enforcement and prosecutors /
While common in occurrence, the evidence needed to prove guilt in impaired driving cases is complex, often requiring expert testimony to assist the trier-of-fact in determining what happened. As in any profession, those who work in it sometimes take for granted the complex nature of our legal system...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Nova Science Publishers,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Criminal justice, law enforcement and corrections.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- DRIVING WHILE IMPAIRED CONFRONTING DEFENSE CHALLENGES AND GUIDANCE FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PROSECUTORS; DRIVING WHILE IMPAIRED CONFRONTING DEFENSE CHALLENGES AND GUIDANCE FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PROSECUTORS; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1 CHALLENGES AND DEFENSES II: CLAIMS AND RESPONSES TO COMMON CHALLENGES AND DEFENSES IN DRIVING WHILE IMPAIRED CASES; INTRODUCTION; CONFRONTING DEFENSE ISSUES IN PRESCRIPTION OR OVER-THE-COUNTER DRUG DUIS; BREATH TESTING RESULTS: DEFENSE ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS; SUGGESTED READINGS.
- CHALLENGES TO BLOOD DRAW AND TEST RESULTSCHALLENGES TO THE SOURCE CODE OF BREATH TESTING INSTRUMENTS; RESOURCES AND REFERENCES; OTHER PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE FROM THE NATIONAL TRAFFIC LAW CENTER; Chapter 2 THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: A GUIDE FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND EXPERT WITNESSES IN IMPAIRED DRIVING CASES*; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; THE ROLE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND EXPERT WITNESSES IN IMPAIRED-DRIVING CASES; CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES; PRACTICE POINT: QUESTIONS TO ANSWER; PRACTICE POINT:USE CLEAR AND CONVINCING LANGUAGE; PRACTICE POINT: PRETRIAL PREPARATION.
- THE SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS: TOXICOLOGISTS, CRASH RECONSTRUCTIONISTS, OPTOMETRISTS, AND OTHER MEDICAL PERSONNELPRACTICE POINT: PLAIN LANGUAGE; PRACTICE POINT: USE ANALOGIES; CROSS-EXAMINATION; CONCLUSION; Chapter 3 DWI PROSECUTOR'S HANDBOOK*; INTRODUCTION; PRELIMINARY CASE REVIEW; CASE EVALUATION; CHARGE REVIEW; ARRAIGNMENT; TRIAL PREPARATION; CONCLUSION; HELPFUL WEB SITES; Chapter 4 CROSS-EXAMINATION FOR PROSECUTORS*; INTRODUCTION; OBJECTIVES FOR CROSS-EXAMINATION; PREPARATION; METHODS OF CROSS-EXAMINATION; FRE 602 LACK OF PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE; FRE 601 GENERAL RULE OF COMPETENCY.
- Fre 613 prior statements of witnessescontrolling cross-examination; cross-examination of the expert witness; fre 702 testimony by experts; federal rules of criminal procedure 16(in part); fre 703 bases of opinion testimony by experts; conclusion; expert witness addendum; appendix. resources and references; index.