Florida Criminal Trial Procedure

by Clayton R. Kaeiser

Reliable Criminal Law Answers

Here in one affordable volume is ready access to authoritative Florida criminal law precedent. Find winning arguments, evaluate key issues, anticipate the opposition’s moves, and locate case support with Florida Criminal Trial Procedure.

Focusing on the litigation of felonies in the circuit court, Florida Criminal Trial Procedure provides comprehensive coverage of arrest, indictment, arraignment, bail, pretrial detention, discovery, pretrial motions, notices, speedy trial, jury selection, proof and argument, verdict and judgment, and more. You can rely on Florida Criminal Trial Procedure for:

1.  Authoritative legal analysis

• Over 1,500 cases are analyzed and cited in over 280 topics, giving you quick access to Florida criminal precedent.  Guidance is provided for emerging legal doctrines, fact-dependent issues, and difficult-to-apply rules.  Start-to-finish coverage is provided, taking you from arrest to judgment.

2.  Artfully-drafted pretrial motions

• Minimize time-consuming research and painful legal writing with these well-supported, ready-to-print motions drafted by the author.  The average motion is four pages long and contains 15-20 citations. 

3.  Valuable tips and techniques

• Wise suggestions, tactics, and cautions are sprinkled throughout the text.  The author’s decades of experience comes through loud and clear in the sections on arrest, indictment and bail, discovery, and pretrial.

Included with this book at no extra charge is a full-text CD-ROM.

Florida Criminal Trial Procedure's incisive, heavily-cited discussions of the principle issues upon which most cases turn will help you quickly find the relevant law that you need.  Dozens of practical suggestions, cautions, and shortcuts, complete with illustrations, will increase your effectiveness and help you avoid errors.  And the tightly-written pretrial motions raise the level of your advocacy and save hours; all are provided on the CD and may be accessed and modified using your word processor. Also included are the standard bond schedules for every Florida jurisdiction.  These valuable schedules are available in no other resource.

Updated annually.  ISBN 1-58012-072-5.  Book Price: $99.00 plus $6.98 shipping.

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Reviews

[Florida Criminal Trial Procedure] has tackled the monumental task of summarizing the totality of Florida criminal procedure with an unmatched clarity, precision, and literary flair. What separates this essential reference from all others is the provocative and entertaining way in which case law and statutes are intertwined with [Florida Criminal Trial Procedure]’s encyclopedic knowledge of literature and history ... Many sections conclude with sample motions that can be easily adapted to the particulars of your case. And, if this were not enough, the Florida practitioner is afforded an appendix on a county-by-county basis of local rules, bond schedules, as well as a comprehensive list of all criminal offenses articulated under Florida law. The usefulness of this text cannot be over estimated. Buy it, read it, use it.
— The Champion

“[Florida Criminal Trial Procedure] is a must have for all attorneys practicing criminal law. It is user-friendly and is a tool our assistants use every day.”
— D.R. Litty, Public Defender, 19th Judicial Circuit

“The leading treatise of its kind in Florida. Don’t go into state criminal court without it.”
— J. Weiner, NACDL past president

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