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American
Bar Association Guidelines for the
Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases
These guidelines, updated in February
2003 by a group of teams assembled from numerous sections of
the American Bar Association, provide standards for trial judges
on selecting and overseeing defense counsel in capital cases,
to help ensure that death penalty defendants receive effective
assistance of counsel. We link to them through our web site
with the kind permission of the American Bar Association.
Child Welfare
Handbook
The purpose of the Handbook
is to provide the judiciary and other members of the child
welfare community with a comprehensive resource guide to New
Mexico's child abuse and neglect process. While designed and
written primarily for judges, the Handbook can be used by
other participants in the legal system. Domestic
Violence Benchbook
The purpose of this benchbook
is to provide all levels of the state judiciary with a comprehensive
resource guide to domestic violence civil and criminal proceedings.
The benchbook incorporates the applicable requirements of
state and federal laws and court cases. It provides information
on the dynamics of domestic violence, explains the process
governing orders of protection, describes how domestic violence
can affect a variety of civil and criminal cases, and addresses
pretrial, trial and sentencing issues.
Domestic
Violence Evidence Chart
This interactive chart addresses
some of the rules that govern admission of hearsay evidence
in three situations common to domestic violence cases. By
selecting a situation, you will see the controlling evidentiary
rules that may permit or prevent admission of the evidence.
You then may select a rule to find out what foundation needs
to be laid to introduce hearsay evidence under the rule, and
for what purposes the evidence may be admitted.
DWI Benchbook
This benchbook provides general
and limited jurisdiction judges with up-to-date information
on all aspects of DWI criminal proceedings in New Mexico.
It covers elements of DWI offenses; initial stops and arrests;
field sobriety and blood alcohol tests, including implied
consent issues; trial; sentencing; and related offenses. The
appendices contain DWI case flow charts; penalty charts; charge
descriptions for entering case documents into the FACTS system;
Scientific Laboratory Division fact sheets and regulations;
and DWI statutes and uniform traffic ordinances.
Jury
Deliberations Guide
The
American Judicature Society has prepared this guide for jurors
in a simple question and answer format to aid them in their
deliberations. It is designed to be given to jurors in pamphlet
form to take with them into the jury room.
Magistrate
Benchbook Municipal
Benchbook Municipal Court
Bond Book Municipal
Court Clerks Handbook Probate Judges Handbook Traffic
Citations Handbook
The purpose of the Traffic Citations
Manual is to provide courts of limited jurisdiction with a
comprehensive resource guide for handling all types of traffic
citations cases, except for DWI cases. A separate DWI Manual
will soon be available from the Judicial Education Center.
Training Guides and Resources for Specific Court Personnel
Here you will find information tailored to individual groups within the judiciary. These guides will help new and established judges discover what resources are on the JEC website that are designed especially for them.
Judicial
Handbook: Ethics
Contains the concepts contained
in the Code in a practical context for judges, especially
non-lawyer judges. A Judge's Deskbook on the Basic Philosophies and Methods
of Science
This deskbook, on the University of Nevada
at Reno's website, is a companion piece to "A Judge's
Deskbook on the Basic Philosophies and Methods of Science," a Model Curriculum developed by the State Justice Institute.
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