Publication Announcements and Reviews

June 20, 2008

Some Recent ABA Publication Announcements June 2008*

Street Legal: A Guide to Pre-trial Criminal Procedure for Police, Prosecutors, and Defenders

By Ken Wallentine

This 396-page book provides specific guidance on pre-trial criminal procedure of all sorts, and explains in understandable terms “what you can do and what you can’t do” under 4th Amendment search and seizure law. From traffic checkpoints and forceful felony arrest, from Miranda warnings to inmate and cell searches, it’s all covered in this concise reference. In addition, numerous charts and guides are included throughout the book to make this as practical a guide as possible.

June 12, 2008

Hard Straight: Award Winning Documentary on Parolees’ “Time on the Outside”

by David Badertscher

From Goro Toshima:

I wanted to alert you to my award-winning documentary, A Hard Straight, which shows what it’s really like to make the radical transition from prison life to society, by following the post-release stories of three people in close and unflinching detail …

…One spent his childhood in foster homes, juvenile detention, and the gang life before his adult convictions. Now, the one thing he knows for sure is that he is a 2-striker and another conviction will land him in prison for the rest of his life… The second had logged more time in prison for parole violations than for his original sentence. “My friends are few, and my world is cold,” he confides, waiting on a street corner notorious for drug deals… The third, a mother whose oldest daughter had taken in the two younger children during her prison term. Life becomes very complicated very quickly once she gains her freedom. Increasing friction with her daughter comes to a head over her struggle with methamphetamine addiction.

June 3, 2008

Wisconsin State Law Library June 2008 Newsletter

by David Badertscher

The June issue of WSLL @ Your Service has been published at http://wsll.state.wi.us/newsletter/0806.html

In this issue:

*What’s New: Please take a 5-minute survey about our website; Library news and upcoming events *Start Here: A Selected List of Resources on … Estate Planning in Wisconsin *This Just In…: Selected new and updated library materials, and a link to our latest New Titles List *Tech Tip in Brief: Highlighting in presentations and on webpages

June 3, 2008

HeinOnLine: Monthly Recap for May 2008

by David Badertscher

World Trials Library

With the addition of 99 new trials in the May content release, HeinOnline’s World Trials Library now contains 1,300 titles. If your library does not already subscribe to one of the most astounding online trials collection in the world, now is the time. Click here for the complete brochure, or contact a member of our sales team for pricing information.

English Reports

May 29, 2008

New Publications from Thomson West – Criminal Law and Procedure

by David Badertscher

May 2008

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Gillespie Michigan Criminal Law and Procedure: Search and Seizure, 2008 ed. – NEW

May 29, 2008

Recent Publications Announced by William S. Hein and Co. May 2008

by David Badertscher

REFLECTIONS OF A LAWYER’S SOUL

The Institutional Experience of Professionalism at

Thomas M. Cooley Law School

May 29, 2008

Directory of European Union Information Sources

by David Badertscher

Published by Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group:

The Directory of EU Information Sources

“This is a new seventeenth edition of The Directory of EU Information Sources. It brings together a broad range of information sources, comprising not only the various constituent institutions of the European Union, their personnel, publications, information websites and representations in Europe and the rest of the world, but also diplomatic representation in Brussels, European-level trade and professional associations and NGOs, consultants and lawyers specializing in EU affairs, press agencies, EU grants and loans programmes, and universities offering courses in European integration.”

May 29, 2008

Recent ABA Book Publishing Announcements May 2008

by David Badertscher

Never Enough: One Lawyer’s True Story of How He Gambled His Career Away

By Michael J. Burke

“I heartily recommend this book for every lawyer in America and to anyone whose life is being sadly touched by a loved one undergoing an addiction of any kind.”