The Post-Conviction Citebook

Book excerpt: The Post-Conviction Citebook is the ultimate shortcut-quick-reference for ineffective assistance of counsel and other constitutional claims. This book provides the user with a comprehensive user friendly Table of Contents, and over 740 quick-reference topics with favorable case law covering practically every post-conviction remedy subject. For example: Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Pretrial proceedings, Motions, Defenses, Guilty Pleas, Trials, Jury Instructions, Verdicts, Sentencing, Appellate proceedings, Post-verdict, Conflict of Interest, Evidentiary Hearings, Cause for Procedural Default, The United States Supreme Court's decisions in Strickland, Hill, Cronic, Apprendi, Blakely, Booker, and Shepard, among others. This is primarily a research tool with the contents designed to assist the individual lawyer or pro se practitioner in finding favorable case law by topic and in chronological order as a criminal trial or proceedings may unfold. This book is a valuable asset to any law library and will save the user countless hours in research.