Texas Criminal Lawyer's Handbook

This new edition of Texas Criminal Lawyer’s Handbook includes updated coverage of a broad range of issues and new text throughout the book to keep you on the cutting edge of Texas criminal law, procedure and practice. The highlights include:

New Text on the following topics:

• Search and Seizure -- Intrusion Upon Property Principle [§2:21.4]
• Pretrial DNA Testing In Capital Cases [§12:190]
• Jury Charge Error [§15:24]
• Charge of Court – Definitions of Terms [§15:125]
• Reforming Verdicts [§15:166.1]
• Promiscuity Defense to Child Sexual Assault Cases – Admissibility to Show Motive or Bias [§17:53.5]
• Post-Trial Issues – Sufficiency of Serious Bodily Injury Evidence [§21:20.7]

Expanded Coverage of the following topics:

• Search of Particular Places – Curtilage [§2:51]
• Terry Stops [§3:32.1]
• Ineffective Counsel [§4:95]
• Immunity Agreements – Purpose and Policy [§5:92]
• Two-Step Confessions [§6:34]
• Previous Jeopardy and Subsequent Prosecutions – When Jeopardy Does Not Attach [§8:21]
• Defendant’s Motion for Change of Venue [§12:55]
• Constitutional Speedy Trial Motions [§12:63]
• Competency of Defendant to Stand Trial – Appeal [§12:165]
• Guilty Pleas – Waivers of Rights [§12:172]
• Involuntary Pleas [§12: 174.3]
• Discovery – Exculpatory, Mitigating or Impeaching Evidence [§13:53]
• Jury Selection/Voir Dire: Challenges for Cause – Bias or Prejudice as a Matter of Law [§14:64]
• Trial Issues: Impeachment – Bias, Interest, Motive [§15:24.1.1]
• Deadly Weapon Allegations and Findings – Entry of Finding in the Judgment [§15:78]
• Mental Status Defenses – Intellectual Disability/Mental Retardation [§15:105.6]
• Electronic Evidence – Cell Phones [§16:38.3.2]
• Admissibility of Scientific Evidence – DNA Evidence [§16:52.3.2]
• Blood Testing and DWI Cases [§16:52.5]
• Punishment Phase – Enhancement Allegations and Evidence [§20:21]
• Sudden Passion Evidence in Murder Cases [§20:30]
• Habeas Corpus – Time Credits [§21:78]
• Post-Conviction DNA Testing [§21:80]