Cultural Issues in Criminal Defense - 3rd Edition
Linda Friedman Ramirez, Editor
Price: $150.00
1 Hardcover Volume. Index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-57823-271-0 / ISBN-10: 1578232716
About the Book:
The one essential treatise for representing immigrant and diverse clients, up to date with Padilla v Kentucky, with jurisprudence and practice tips relevant to all stages of representation, from interviewing clients to handling post conviction and relief. This treatise will be of interest to public defender offices as well as private practitioners.
Keeping pace with the rapidly changing face of America, Cultural Issues in Criminal Defense -3rd edition is the complete reference guide to one of the most challenging and topical subjects in contemporary criminal law.
Cultural Issues in Criminal Defense is an indispensable book for the criminal defense lawyer representing people from other cultures, nationalities or ethnic backgrounds. Lawyers defending these individuals face a host of characteristic concerns that include cultural barriers to communication, the need for qualified interpreters, unique Fourth and Fifth Amendment issues, cultural defenses, issues involving Native Americans, the immigration consequences of a conviction, and distinctive sentencing issues. Packed with practice tips and helpful precedent cases, Cultural Issues in Criminal Defense is the only book on the market that walks the practitioner through these issues in a clear, comprehensive and systematic way.
Extensively updated and expanded for its second edition, the guide now includes chapters on stimulating new subjects such as consular assistance issues, gathering evidence abroad, language proficiency concerns and international prisoner transfers.
Praise for Cultural Issues in Criminal Defense, 2nd Edition
"The second edition of Cultural Issues in Criminal Defense, with a new editor and some new writers, improves an already excellent, invaluable and necessary resource. It is a “must have” for the criminal defense lawyer whose practice involves representing people of other cultures and languages or handling cases with foreign law issues. This unique book serves as a valuable reference to both the new and experienced practitioner. No advocate should be without it in his or her library."
-The Champion (National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers)
“I have been a student of the Fourth Amendment since 1971 when I took criminal procedure back in what was the Fourth Amendment’s “stone age.” For 30 years now, I’ve been seeking to understand the tao of the Fourth Amendment. Understanding is everything, and one will find a significant aid in Cultural Issues in Criminal Defense, 2d Edition. How does a citizen of Mexico or any other country understand police-citizen relationships? Courts assume that our own citizens do, when, for example, consent to search or talk with the police is an issue, but we clearly do not. It is purely legal fiction. When a person from another culture is in the hands of the police, they are even more lost and clueless than our own citizens, and our duty as criminal defense lawyers is to expose why people do not understand what is happening when they consent to a search or talk to the police. This book will greatly aid us in that duty.”
-John Wesley Hall, President, NACDL (National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers)
"I have the pleasure of serving as a Consulting Attorney for the Mexican Consulate in Orlando, Florida, and I found the book to be a tremendous resource in my pending representation of a Mexican national in a collateral appeal intending to set aside a judgment and sentence of 25 years for deficient representation at trial. The book is a thoughtful and lucid account of the how and why of presenting cultural aspects in criminal defense. It offers powerful tools for the practitioner."
- Diego Handel, Glasser and Handel, Daytona Beach, Florida
“Defense counsel, armed with excellent resources like this book, will be able to effectively fight for the rights of those bewildered strangers who find themselves in trouble in a strange land”
-Charles M. Sevilla, Cleary & Sevilla, San Diego, CA
"This book is a great resource for lawyers representing foreigners charged with crimes, especially in the United States. The book is an excellent reference for practitioners, criminal justice professionals, and professionals working in comparative and international criminal law. An advantage of the book is that, in addition to describing the issues arising under each of the topics, it provides very practical advice on how to deal with the various areas and subareas."
-Bruce Zagaris, Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe LLP, Washington, DC
"Cultural Issues in Criminal Defense will not gather dust on any criminal defense attorney’s shelf. It provides ideas, angles, and insights that will greatly assist any criminal defense attorney – and perhaps any other attorney – who faces the daunting task of guiding a person from another culture, nationality, or ethnic background through the American legal system."
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