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08-27-10, 02:11 PM
OK...As I mentioned in my introduction post, I'm a paralegal-in-training hoping to work for...Well, I'll work for anybody who'll hire me, but I'd like to work for a prosecutor's office (or the US Attorney's office in Newark). Failing that, I'd even work for a criminal defense attorney.
Maybe this is all stuff I'll find out I get in a criminal law class, but I'm hoping to build up a "library" of sorts in electronic formats (because, while I love paper books, money is really tight, shelf-space is tight, and I can carry e-documents (which I hope are free) around on a handy flash drive) of things that would be "necessary reading" (beyond the annotated statutes and the like available through Lexis Nexis or Westlaw) in criminal actions. Better I be familiar with everything when I'm applying for the job is my thought process - I know experience will override "the books" on a lot, and God only knows what new law will do, but it seems like, with my inherent disadvantages, I'll want to know what I'm looking at from day 1, if not before. (Regrettably, sort of a "have to be 150% to get judged as 100%" situation feels likely.)
And I can find a lot of fun stuff on the internet, it turns out! But I can't find the basics, which is driving me up a tree. All I manage to find is fairly esoteric and useless stuff. (I've looked offline, such as at my local libraries, though not-driving makes that hard. Nothing. :( )
What I can't find, and would like help to find? (Some of this may not seem relevant to a paralegal - I acknowledge that; at this point, I'm as hungry for knowledge as I am for anything particularly relevant to my field):
I can't find a text of the Miranda Warning as used in NJ (I'm presuming, maybe wrongly, that one text is used throughout the state? Or is it done agency by agency?); Plenty for California, but nothing for the East Coast, to say nothing of NJ specifically. If someone could just type up their Miranda card, I'd be grateful.
I've also heard tale of a Miranda warning formulated specifically for juveniles - but no confirmation it exists. Does it? (And if so, does anybody have a text available for it?)
Books, manuals...Anything you might recommend someone trying to build a library on law enforcement (and the law, though I mostly use Lexis for that at the moment) in New Jersey. It could be as basic as "beg, borrow, or buy a copy of some agency's manual for [patrol officers/investigators/whatever]" (in which case I'd love to know where to look)...Or anything, really. Online/electronic formats preferred for reasons outlined above, but titles I should beg for through ILL at my college's library would be helpful, too.
What the heck does a search warrant look like in NJ? Or an arrest warrant? I know I could probably wait til one of my classes and ask an instructor, but it's had me very curious lately, and classes don't start for 2 weeks or so. I've never seen an example of either, and knowing what a "good" one looks like would probably help me later on, anyway.
If what I'm looking for isn't going to be available online (or available for public consumption at all), okay, I'd like to know that; at least it's just plain not available in those cases, and not "available if your search skills weren't useless".
If there are things I should be looking for that aren't up there, feel free to suggest em, too.
Thanks.
Maybe this is all stuff I'll find out I get in a criminal law class, but I'm hoping to build up a "library" of sorts in electronic formats (because, while I love paper books, money is really tight, shelf-space is tight, and I can carry e-documents (which I hope are free) around on a handy flash drive) of things that would be "necessary reading" (beyond the annotated statutes and the like available through Lexis Nexis or Westlaw) in criminal actions. Better I be familiar with everything when I'm applying for the job is my thought process - I know experience will override "the books" on a lot, and God only knows what new law will do, but it seems like, with my inherent disadvantages, I'll want to know what I'm looking at from day 1, if not before. (Regrettably, sort of a "have to be 150% to get judged as 100%" situation feels likely.)
And I can find a lot of fun stuff on the internet, it turns out! But I can't find the basics, which is driving me up a tree. All I manage to find is fairly esoteric and useless stuff. (I've looked offline, such as at my local libraries, though not-driving makes that hard. Nothing. :( )
What I can't find, and would like help to find? (Some of this may not seem relevant to a paralegal - I acknowledge that; at this point, I'm as hungry for knowledge as I am for anything particularly relevant to my field):
I can't find a text of the Miranda Warning as used in NJ (I'm presuming, maybe wrongly, that one text is used throughout the state? Or is it done agency by agency?); Plenty for California, but nothing for the East Coast, to say nothing of NJ specifically. If someone could just type up their Miranda card, I'd be grateful.
I've also heard tale of a Miranda warning formulated specifically for juveniles - but no confirmation it exists. Does it? (And if so, does anybody have a text available for it?)
Books, manuals...Anything you might recommend someone trying to build a library on law enforcement (and the law, though I mostly use Lexis for that at the moment) in New Jersey. It could be as basic as "beg, borrow, or buy a copy of some agency's manual for [patrol officers/investigators/whatever]" (in which case I'd love to know where to look)...Or anything, really. Online/electronic formats preferred for reasons outlined above, but titles I should beg for through ILL at my college's library would be helpful, too.
What the heck does a search warrant look like in NJ? Or an arrest warrant? I know I could probably wait til one of my classes and ask an instructor, but it's had me very curious lately, and classes don't start for 2 weeks or so. I've never seen an example of either, and knowing what a "good" one looks like would probably help me later on, anyway.
If what I'm looking for isn't going to be available online (or available for public consumption at all), okay, I'd like to know that; at least it's just plain not available in those cases, and not "available if your search skills weren't useless".
If there are things I should be looking for that aren't up there, feel free to suggest em, too.
Thanks.