Publications

Search and Seizure Briefs

This 22 page document covers a number of constitutional rules law enforcement officers need to know to perform their daily duties. The 4th, 5th and 6th Amendments are covered in great detail outlining the three basic rules under the 4th Amendment; the rules outlining multiple attempts at interrogation under the 5th Amendment; and the distinction between the 5th and 6th Amendment right to counsel.

Additionally, the Search and Seizure Briefs document cites dozens of court cases (with proper legal citations) and outlines an easy to understand presentation of the exclusions and exceptions to the search warrant rule.

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Colorado Criminal Code Briefs

This 15 page document outlines the most common criminal code statutes used the law enforcement officer in their day to day tasks. It is written in plain English, brief, and easy to understand and provides an excellent quick reference guide.

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CRS Workbook Study Guides 2010

Here is the best, perhaps the only, instructional tool available for teaching CRS.

Designed for law enforcement training, this instructional tool consists of three volumes:

Volume I pertains to Criminal Procedure with emphasis on Arrest and Search procedures. Some basic material on Title 17, Corrections, is included.

Although each volume may be used separately, concepts introduced here are considered throughout. Example: Fourth Amendment Issues.

Volume II deals exclusively with the Colorado Criminal Code. It is very comprehensive and details the elements of substantive crimes as well as miscellaneous offenses.

Volume III primarily deals with the Children’s Code and clarifies it with a two-part approach. Significant parts of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act are examined.

These volumes should be used along with a standard version of the statutes provided by the District Attorneys’ Council, LexisNexis, etc.

At the close of the Legislative Session each year the set is revised to include amendments, laws repealed and new laws. This has been completed for 2010.

Questions are provided throughout the three volumes and are suitable for quizzes and testing. Once students have written their answers; these may be scored and lively discussions may follow.

The need for cross-referencing when studying the laws occurs frequently and this can be both frustrating and time consuming. Much of this has already been done in ways to help the student.

There is no reason for a course in CRS to be dull or uninteresting. The method of instruction employed here provides a variety of learning experiences, which translate to real world situations. The value for the student will remain far beyond the schedule for the course.

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Colorado Peace Officer's Law & Procedure Field Guide

LawTech Publishing is proud to introduce our newest QWIK-CODE publication for Colorado Peace Officers. The Colorado Peace Officer's Law & Procedure Field Source Guide is a valuable reference tool containing an abbreviated compilation of current laws extracted from Titles 16, 18, and 19 of the Colorado Revised Statutes.

The QWIK-CODE is designed for easy use and quick reference that incorporates a valuable index and table of contents. Many of the most commonly used statutes are now at your fingertips without the necessity of having the full C.R.S. text. We have tailored the QWIK-CODE to the needs of the law enforcement professional, keeping it compact and focusing on what the law enforcement officer needs to know every day on the job. You will find it a valuable tool for performing your daily duties.

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"Colorado Peace Officer's Law & Procedure Field Guide" is available for $14.99 per copy. Contact us regarding volume pricing.

Search and Seizure Briefs

Click here to read an excerpt from Search and Seizure Briefs (rev. 2/28/2007).

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Colorado Criminal Code Briefs

Click here to read an excerpt from Colorado Criminal Code Briefs (rev. 7/12/2007).

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Post Practice Exams

Post Practice Exam 9

Click here to read an excerpt from Post Practice Exam 9 (rev. 7/2/2007).

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Post Practice Exam 8

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Post Practice Exam 7

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2010 Legislative Update

Along with changes to the statutory value based crimes, many new laws were enacted or modified during the 2010 legislative session. The attempt of this outline is to identify all the new changes that impact law enforcement and to put those changes into the proper context for better understanding. The highlighted text denotes changes to the existing statutes or identifies newly enacted statutes.

The second purpose of this outline is to provide a reference manual until the 2010 version of the Colorado Revised Statutes are published which will probably be sometime in October/November 2010.

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Training Bulletins

These bulletins are prepared as legal briefs from the full text version of the latest published decisions from the United States Supreme Court, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, the Colorado Supreme Court, and the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Those court decisions that have an impact on the day to day activities in which police officers engage are prepared as legal briefs in an attempt to educate law enforcement on the latest procedural rules. These rules typically encompass those activities that we do every day….contacts, traffic stops, investigatory detentions, arrests, and searches and seizures of every type.

The hope is that these briefs clearly explain the facts of the situation, the legal issue that was before the court, the law as it exists, the reasons why the court decided the way it did and what we as law enforcement officers need to learn from each case. In other words "what's the bottom line?"

Access to current Training Bulletins is available through an annual subsription of $125. Contact us regarding volume pricing.

Click on one of the following folders to view the Training Bulletins for that year.

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