NCJ Number
107938
Date Published
1986
Length
147 pages
Annotation
These trial skills advocacy seminars are designed to prepare lawyers for tasks required of Navy/Marine Corps judge advocates.
Abstract
The first 10 seminars deal with 2 cases, United States v. Staley and United States v. Dean. Seminars cover interviewing the accused, drafting and negotiating the pretrial agreement, motion practice, guilty pleas, providency inquiry, and sentencing procedures. Approximately 50 errors commonly committed by students in moot courts also are discussed. Remaining seminars deal with suppression motions, voir dire and challenges, and opening statements. The Government's and the defense's actual stances in the two cases also are provided together with instructions, findings arguments, and a findings worksheet. Each seminar provides background information, case posture, a description of necessary preparation for playing Government and defense roles, and an outline of the specific exercise. Seminars on witnesses, urinalysis, and case files for the two cases are appended.