Overview: Table of Contents

Waging War in the War Zone of Criminal Justice (Our Mission)
Punch & Jurists: The Weekly Newsletter
Unpublished Decisions
Briefs and Motions
Key Websites
Research Tools
Survey of the Guidelines
Richard Levitt's 2nd Circuit Criminal Law
What Members Get
Subscription Information: Prices


 WAGING BATTLE IN THE WAR ZONE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Any counsel who has fought the power of the Government--its unlimited resources, its ability to send wave after wave of fresh troops to battle, and its unconscionable use of disreputable, highly paid informants--knows that the playing field of criminal justice is not level.

Punch and Jurists strives to bring some balance back to the scales of justice by arming defense attorneys with instant access to the latest developments in the field of criminal law at a reasonable cost. There are no issues we are afraid to tackle and no inequities we won't expose. By quoting the words of judges, our staff uncovers the inconsistencies and perplexities of criminal law as expressed in the daily flow of new decisions. We cover a broad range of topics; but, unlike other legal publications, we attempt to identify the trendsetting legal arguments; highlight the winning strategies; and make available the most comprehensive and current legal research resources that are available.     

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PUNCH AND JURISTS - THE WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

Each week, the staff of Punch and Jurists reads and analyzes every Federal criminal case that is published in the Federal Reporter and the Federal Supplement (an average of more than 70 new criminal cases per week).  Thus, our publication gives the busy criminal defense lawyer a time-saving alternative to poring through the thousands of pages of new decisions published each week.  Through our digests of significant the decisions reported each week, we help make a difference - without the need for expensive collections of case books or the costly alternative of a large rsearch staff.  

Punch and Jurists presents its lively summaries of the most important new cases in an easy-to-read and lively format. In each issue, Punch and Jurists puts the cases it reviews in context by showing what other courts have written about the topic or by pointing out compelling legal arguments often contained in the dissenting and concurring opinions or in the oft-overlooked footnotes. We keep a special eye out for those cases that present some outrageous, controversial, funny or macabre position.

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UNPUBLISHED DECISIONS

At our site on the Internet, we maintain a special compilation of unpublished decisions.   This important collection of cases that they don't want you to see often contains the hidden keys to a successful brief or motion; and it is updated frequently.  

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BRIEFS AND MOTIONS

Also at our site on the Internet, we maintain an extensive collection of noteworthy briefs, motions and other pleading sent to us by our subscribers from all over the country.  These pleadings cover some of the most important, current and controversial criminal law topics - and they give the defense attorney the benefit of reviewing a tried and proven approach of other lawyers.  

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KEY WEBSITES

To assist the criminal defense bar, Punch and Jurists has prepared a special listing of Key Websites where Subscribers can instantly tap into some of the extraordinary data relating to criminal law that is available on the Internet. The range of legal materials that exists on the Internet is enormous; but it can be time-consuming, frustrating and even inordinately difficult to find the precise Website that is needed. Punch and Jurists realizes that most attorneys don't have the time to spend hundreds of hours finding and marking the various Websites where they can find the equivalent of a full-fledged law library - that is absolutely free. Now, by tapping into this feature lawyers will be able to save both time and money and instantly find the best and quickest sources of legal research that are vital to a case without the necessity of maintaining a large, expensive collection of law books.

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THE RESEARCH RESOURCES OF PUNCH AND JURISTS

One of Punch and Jurists ' greatest assets its enormous library of significant criminal cases. Each week, as our staff prepares the weekly edition of Punch and Jurists, it reviews numerous cases which are not significant enough to merit discussion in that week's issue because they may only repeat and follow what other courts have already ruled. But those cases may be of great importance to a lawyer from a certain jurisdiction who wants to know the position of the judges in his or her Circuit. For that reason, we store information on those cases in a growing data bank covering the most current and controversial criminal law topics. These compilations are described under the feature button called Research Tools; and, over time, additional Surveys will be added.

The topics currently active include issues related to:
 
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SURVEY OF THE FEDERAL SENTENCING GUIDELINES

Punch and Jurists also maintains a separate page  that is devoted to cases and issues dealing with the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. This 200-plus page on-line document contains a listing and a brief analysis of hundreds of the most recent Federal court decisions pertaining to the Guidelines, listed by Guideline section.   It is the indispensible tool for finding the latest and most significant pronouncements of the Courts on the most controversial Guidelines' issues.

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RICHARD LEVITT'S 2ND CIRCUIT CRIMINAL LAW
 

Mr. Levitt is one of New York's leading criminal defense lawyers. He has been preparing his Annual Survey of criminal law cases decided by the Second Circuit since January of 1988. Together with the Annual Supplements for the years 1994, 1995 and 1996, the Second Circuit Criminal Law Update now consists of more than 640 pages of case summaries, indexed and catalogued in a fashion that gives any attorney a quick summary of the law in the Second Circuit. In the past, the Criminal Law Update has been distributed in printed format by the New York Criminal Bar Association.  This invaluable compilation of decisions dealing with Federal criminal law is now available in electronic format exculsively through Punch and Jurists; and in the version offered on the Internet all of the recent cases are directly linked to the official text of the Second Circuit decisions.

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WHAT MEMBERS GET

Subscribers to our Internet Package receive unlimited access to the entire Legal Research Center maintained by Punch and Jurists.   This includes the weekly issues of Punch and Jurists, the entire Guidelines Survey, Richard Ware Levitt's Second Circuit Criminal Law Update, all of the pleadings posted on our Briefs and Motions page, our special lising of Key Websites, and much, much more.  We also post special announcements about new developments in the field of Federal criminal law, including notices of new and proposed changes to the laws and rules.  Finally, the weekly editions of Punch and Jurists on the Internet are hypertext linked to the official text of the decisions from the Federal Courts of Appeal and to all the Supreme Court cases that are cited.

In short, through a subscription to Punch and Jurists Internet Package,  subscribers will have available at their desks the equivalent of a full-fledged, easy-to-use legal librarythat will provide instant access to the latest, most meaningful legal precedents and emerging issues in the field of Federal criminal law. Just type https://fedcrimlaw.com and mark this site for future use.

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SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION AND PRICES:
 

1. The Internet Package

2. Punch & Jurists Weekly in printed form

3. Survey of the Guidelines on a floppy

4. Special Compilations on a floppy


The Internet Package: -  $159.00 per year

By far the most economical plan, the Internet Package offers unlimited access, for a period of one-year from the date of payment, to the entire package of features offered. Included in this package are the following features:

2.   Weekly Issues of Punch and Jurists in printed format:  -  $179.00 per year
Each week, the staff of Punch and Jurists reads every new criminal justice case published in the Federal Reporter and the Federal Supplement (an average of some 75 cases per week), and then selects the significant cases for publication in Punch and Jurists. Most busy defense attorneys have little time to pore over the 80 or so new Federal criminal cases that are published, on average, each week. They need help - and most of all they need a publication that is informative, timely and tailored to their needs. Punch and Jurists is designed to:
 
  • highlight the most notable topics and important holdings giving a broad overview of the key issues and arguments and cases;
  • save busy attorneys invaluable hours of research time;
  • keep them apprised of the avalanche of trend-setting cases published each week; and
  • show them how to win their cases or appeals by putting in context the most significant legal issues and the latest, meaningful precedents in the field of Federal criminal law.

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Here's a sampling of what some of our subscribers have said about Punch and Jurists. An attorney from Charlottesville wrote: "I have truly enjoyed my subscription to Punch and Jurists. I find its editorial perspective refreshing and in each issue I have found a case that is either relevant to something I am currently handling or simply thought provoking." A Federal Public Defender called Punch and Jurists "one of the best resources in our library." Another attorney from Philadelphia wrote: "Your publication is outstanding. It shows a great deal of insight and acuity of thought." But one attorney from Sacramento perhaps best captured our goals and our mission with these words: "Thank you for your wonderful publication. It is refreshing, thought provoking, helpful and painful to read. Keep up the fine work."

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3. Survey of Cases relating to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines:  - $79.00 per year
(on floppy disk - in various formats)
As any defense attorney knows, the most critical aspect of every criminal case has become the sentencing phase - where defendants can get reamed with substantial sentence increases for charges that have been dismissed - or for which the defendant was acquitted - and even for "crimes" that were never even charged! That's why the Federal Sentencing Guidelines have become so important. It has become essential to stay abreast of the latest court rulings on the many Guideline sections - especially the many nuggets buried each week in the mountain of new decisions that are written. Punch and Jurists' Survey of Guidelines Cases is designed to do just that. It is a 200-plus -page compilation of recent Guidelines' cases that contains summaries of significant Guidelines cases reported during the past two years in the Federal Reporter and the Federal Supplement (many of which were not included in the weekly issues of Punch and Jurists); and it is indexed and organized by the Guideline sections. This special summary of cases comes on a floppy disk, and is formatted for use with several different word processing software programs, including Microsoft Word and WordPerfect - both the windows versions and the DOS versions.

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4. Special compilations of cases on various criminal law topics:  - $79.00 per year
(on floppy disks - in various formats)
If you don't have access to the Internet, you can still purchase Punch and Jurists special compilations of cases on various criminal law topics. At the present time, the disks that are available are:
  • the Federal Rules of Evidence,
  • the most common Pretrial Motions,
  • the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure,
  • the Drug Laws,
  • the Gun Laws,
  • various Sentencing issues, and
  • Entrapment Cases - By Circuit.

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The price for any one disk is $79.00. For each additional disk that you purchase you get a $50.00 reduction. Thus, if you purchase
  • two disks, you get a $50 reduction, for a total price if $108.00;
  • three disks, you get a $100 reduction, for a total price of $137.00;
  • four disks, you get a $150 reduction, for a total price of $166.00;
  • five disks, you get a $200 reduction, for a total price of $195.00; and
  • all six disks, you get a $250 reduction, for a total price of $224.00.

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