New Practice Guide: Defense Motions and Notices in Superior Court

I’m happy to announce my first indigent defense practice guide, Defense Motions and Notices in Superior Court. As the title implies, it’s a court-ready guide for practitioners about common defense motions in superior court criminal cases at the trial level. While it is primarily written with non-capital felony cases in mind, the information will hopefully be useful to all criminal defense attorneys. The guide is in more or less chronological order of how a criminal case proceeds. Each entry lists the authority for the motion, its basic concepts, applicable deadlines, and any practice pointers. Because it is not a treatise on each type of motion, there are links and references to more detailed information throughout the guide. I can’t say that it includes every type of motion that one may need to file in any given case, but my goal was to put all of the requirements for the most common and important motions all in one place (along with those of a few less common motions as well). One might use the table of contents as a checklist for motions practice. I hope and expect to add to it eventually. So if any readers have suggestions for a motion to add, please let me know. You can access the guide for free on the Defender Manuals website, here. Scroll over the Practice Guides tab at the top of the page and, when the dropdown menu appears, click on Defense Motions and Notices in Superior Court. You also can click on [...]