Texas Criminal Pattern Jury Charges—Intoxication and Controlled Substances

Criminal Pattern Jury ChargesTexas Criminal Pattern Jury Charges–Intoxication and Controlled Substances
- By the State Bar Pattern Jury Charges Committee–Criminal.
- Instant Download! Download an electronic version containing the entire book and all charge language.
- 1 volume; softbound
- Copyright ©2009
- 374 Pages
- $125.00


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Texas Criminal Pattern Jury Charges—Intoxication and Controlled Substances includes a thorough discussion of legal issues of concern in drafting criminal charges, a complete general charge, and special instructions for a variety of topics. With this book, the committee designed an outline that explicitly states the relevant statutes and legal definitions and then applies the law to the facts in commonsense language. Each section is clearly identified, and the format enhances readability for the jury. The book also includes a quick guide to drafting a jury charge.

Texas Criminal Pattern Jury Charges—Intoxication and Controlled Substances downloadable electronic version is included with purchase and contains the entire book in a hyperlinked and word-searchable PDF file. Texas case citations are linked to PDF files of the cases and to an online version of the Casemaker Web Library. Texas statute citations are linked to the main code sections cited via Casemaker online. The downloadable version includes a link to the Texas Constitution and Statutes Web site for downloads of Texas codes. All charge language is included as RTF files, linked from the main PDF file of the book for quick retrieval and assembly of the jury charge.

The Pattern Jury Charges Committee—Criminal is composed of approximately twenty members drawn from the bench, prosecutors’ offices, defense practice, and academia. In this first volume, the Committee makes basic recommendations concerning criminal jury instructions. It also provides proposed instructions for use in several types of cases illustrating how these basic recommendations would be implemented. –George E. Dix, George R. Killam, Jr. Chair of Criminal Law, University of Texas at Austin, and Vice-Chair, Pattern Jury Charges Committee–Criminal

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