Casenote® Legal Briefs CRIMINAL LAW, Keyed to Courses Using Kaplan, Weisberg, Binder, and Gruber's Criminal Law: Cases and Materials, Tenth Edition, is designed to help you save time by providing the facts, black letter law, and holding and decision for the principal cases covered in your casebook. Used as part of a rigorous study regimen, Casenote Legal Briefs can help you spend more time analyzing and critiquing points of law than on copying bits and pieces of judicial opinions into your notebook or outline. 

New to this Edition:

The following cases (new or revised in the Tenth Edition of your casebook) are included in Casenote® Legal Briefs CRIMINAL LAW, Keyed to Courses Using Kaplan, Weisberg, Binder, and Gruber's Criminal Law: Cases and Materials, Tenth Edition:

•  Grants Pass v. Johnson
• Commonwealth v. Mixer
• People v. Gory
• Simms v. District of Columbia
• State v. Joseph
• Commonwealth v. Carter
• Hernandez v. United States
• People v. Hernandez
• State v. Barela
• Chapline v. State
• In re Jason Allen D. 

Students will benefit from:

Casenote® Legal Briefs break down the major cases in your casebook into a succinct, readable, and uncluttered format that details:

•  the nature of the case,
• the issue,
• a summary of the facts,
• the rule of law,
• detailed facts,
• the holding and decision, including dissents and concurrences, and
• a brief comment or analysis of the case.

Additional Materials Include:

 • Quicknotes following each case define legal terms used in the brief.

 • A Glossary in the back of the book lists and defines Latin words and phrases commonly found in the language of the law.

 • Quick Reference Rules of Law pages open every chapter and list the rules of law that apply in each case in that chapter.

 • How to Brief a Case provides step-by-step instructions on how to format, organize, and write your own case brief with the greatest efficiency.

 • A fold-out Quick Course Outline highlights the main topics of the course and can serve as the starting point for creating your own outline of this subject area.