A Portable Guide to Federal Conspiracy Law: Tactics and Strategies for Criminal and Civil Cases [Paperback]

Joseph F. McSorley (Author)

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ISBN-10: 1590311884 | ISBN-13: 978-1590311882 | Publication Date: March 9, 2004 | Edition: 2nd Edition

This newly-updated version is a practical, well-organized look at federal conspiracy law. With reliable, up-to-date information and will help you prepare for pretrial and in-trial considerations that can shape and influence trial tactics and strategies.

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Joseph F. McSorley was born and raised in Washington, D.C. He received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University in 1965 with a major in government and a minor in philosophy. He received his J.D. degree in 1968 from the Georgetown Law Center. He is a member of the District of Columbia and Florida Bars. After graduation, McSorley entered active duty as an infantry officer in the United States Army. He completed paratrooper and ranger training and served in the Republic of Vietnam as a captain with the 101st Airborne Division. From December 1970 to March 1987, Mr. McSorley was an Assistant U.S. Attorney with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Columbia. He served in the Misdemeanor Trial Section, Appellate Division, Grand Jury Section, Felony Trial Unit and Major Crimes Unit. He investigated and prosecuted a wide range of offenses including RICO, federal tax offenses, homicides, armed robberies, kidnappings, rapes and narcotics offenses. In 1982 he transferred to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami where he was Chief of the Criminal Division overseeing sixty prosecutors charged with the investigation and prosecution of a wide variety of criminal offenses, including RICO, CCE, bank fraud, international drug offenses, the attempted assassination of federal agents and conspiracies to commit a broad range of substantive offenses. In 1985, he was promoted to Chief Assistant to the U.S. Attorney with supervisory and managerial responsibility for ninety prosecutors in the main office in Miami as well as branch offices in Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.

Mr. McSorley has taught various litigation-related courses and prepared a variety of monographs dealing with trial and investigatory practices for newly hired federal prosecutors in the Department of Justice and U.S. Attorneys’ offices throughout the country. In 1987, he entered private practice with the Florida law firm of Shutts & Bowen LLP, and now practices in the West Palm Beach office of the firm. He has handled a wide variety of civil and criminal matters including securities fraud, RICO, antitrust, bribery, and tax fraud.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: American Bar Association; 2nd Edition edition (March 9, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590311884
• ISBN-13: 978-1590311882
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,202,434 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Well, Unless You Have Another Book in Mind..., August 25, 2003

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This review is from: A Portable Guide to Federal Conspiracy Law: Tactics and Strategies for Criminal and Civil Cases (Paperback)

... You'll probably have to buy this one, regardless of your feelings about the shortcomings of this one. As a defense attorney practicing in federal court, I deal with conspriacy all the time. How nice it is then, to have a little portable book that is compact and durable enough to bring to counsel table at a motions hearing! I mean really, that's just a useful thing to have. Author is a former AUSA, not that that is a BAD thing, necessarily. My bottom line is that you really do need a good treatment of the relationship of the law of conspriacy to the law of evidence. Maybe I'm just taking a short cut here, but I think it's pretty handy.
The rest of the sections are all right. You could probably sum up the law of conspiracy in two words, but I'm fairly sure that Amazon won't print one of them...