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Book SynopsisThe second volume of Select Legal Topics updates, analyses, and covers current developments in such areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, state civil procedure, civil rights matters, constitutional issues, and significant recent Supreme Court decisions. Select Legal Topics also covers issues of mental disease or defects in the case of a criminal client and considers the rules in the criminal procedure law concerning motions to set aside the verdict as well as post-conviction motions. Section one analyzes mainly criminal law issues. Section two considers civil rights issues. Included in this section are such issues as the First Amendment, state action, and other more specific and exact issues in this area. Section three of the book considers various procedural issues. The book also includes a comprehensive index and table of cases. This book, to some extent, is general in character but also hones in and analyses certain legal developments in significant United States Supreme Court
Trade ReviewThis new book by Andrew Schatkin will be a great benefit to lawyers, judges, law students, and the general public. Having this reference book will be helpful to anyone who wishes to be informed about the areas of law the book covers. I look forward to further books by Andrew Schatkin. -- Richard Gutierrez, attorney at law
For more than 35 years, Andrew J. Schatkin has been a practicing attorney, author, and teacher. There are very few lawyers or judges in these United States who can rival his prolific output, his analysis, or his insightful commentaries on subjects relating to the law. All lawyers and the public owe him a debt of thanks for his due diligence. -- Thomas E. Liotti, village justice in Westbury, Long Island, NY, and former chair of New York State Bar Associations’ Criminal Justice Section
Table of ContentsPreface Section I – Criminal Law Introduction 1. Post-Conviction Motions: First in a Three-part Series 2. Post-Conviction Motions: Second in a Three-part Series 3. Post-Conviction Motions: Part Three 4. Notice of Alibi: An Overview and Analysis 5. The Motion to Set Aside the Verdict: A Compilation of Cases 6. An Analysis of the Motion to Set Aside the Verdict: Subsection 1 7. An Analysis of the Motion to Set Aside the Verdict: Subsection 2 8. An Analysis of the Motion to Set Aside the Verdict: Part IV 9. Article 730 / Mental Disease or Defect Excluding Fitness to Proceed: Part I 10. Article 730 / Mental Disease or Defect Excluding Fitness to Proceed: Part II 11. Article 730 / Mental Disease or Defect Excluding Fitness to Proceed: Part III Section II – Civil Rights Law Introduction 12. The First Amendment and State Action 13. Named or Unnamed: A Neat Question 14. State Human Rights and Title VII 15. A Matter of Time 16. A Question of National Origin 17. A Note on Equitable Tolling 18. A Recent Civil Rights Case 19. A Word about Civil Rights and Domestic Violence 20. A Recent Case on Corporate Finance 21. Section 1983 and Excessive Force 22. Termination At Will? 23. A Few Words on a Recent United States Supreme Court Case 24. A Final and Disturbing Labor Law Decision 25. Some Comments on Three Recent Supreme Court Cases Section III – Procedural Issues Introduction 26. The Motion to Strike 27. When an Attorney Does Not Appear: The CPLR Solution 28. A Note on Objections Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Table of Cases Index
