New Pike & Fischer information service on criminal law.Pike pike, in zoology pike, common name for the family Esocidae, freshwater game and food fishes of Europe, Asia, and North America. The pike, the muskellunge, and the pickerel form a small but well-known group of long, thin fishes with spineless dorsal fins, & Fischer (Silver Spring, ND), a unit of BNA BNA Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. BNA Birds of North America BNA block numbering area (US Census) BNA British North America BNA Banco Nacional de Angola (National Bank of Angola) , Inc. (Washington, D.C.), has begun the publication of Criminal Practice Manual & Report, a new information service taglined "your best source for what's working today in criminal law." The new information service includes: a set of reference materials, updated quarterly; a subscription to Criminal Practice Report newsletter, published 26 times a year to carry briefings on the decisions, developments and news relevant to criminal practitioners; and, the monthly Practice Guide, a report covering one specific criminal law topic and including documents, transcripts and commentary. Targeted to "anyone practicing criminal law," Pike & Fischer said the service includes practice aids, overviews of policies and practices, case law and commentary of major or significant trials, motions, trial transcripts, sample plea provisions, jury instructions Jury instructions are the set of legal rules that jurors must follow when the jury is deciding a civil or criminal case. Jury instructions are given to the jury by the judge, who usually reads them aloud to the jury. and checklists. The accompanying Web site, criminal-practice.pf.com, carries the entire contents of the manual and archives of the Report and Practice Guide, with links to relevant news articles. A CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). version allows subscribers to search the database, load materials to a laptop Same as laptop computer. laptop - portable computer , use sample motions, checklist and Practice Aids. It also contains an archive of the monthly Practice Guides and all issues of Criminal Practice Report from January 1996. A charter annual subscription costs $370; a regular subscription will cost $570. |
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