Trialdex, is a resource for finding and comparing USA federal and state jury instructions.
about trialdex
https://www.trialdex.com/about.htm
Trialdex has the most powerful and up-to-date collection of jury instruction tools on the Internet.
Jury instructions are a lawyer’s most important resource, and must be consulted at the earliest point in litigation. This site makes it easy to find and compare instructions inside and outside your circuit or state.
Trialdex also offers litigation tools, a series of questions and answers that walk you through complex legal problems, and are accompanied by flowcharts. Once again, a good place to start your legal research.
There is a much more detailed explanation of this on the trialdex FAQ page.
about the author
Ed Hagen was an Assistant Director at the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Education from 1995 until his retirement in 2018. Before that he was a state prosecutor and adjunct law professor.
He is the co-author of Law of Confessions(Thomson Reuters) and The Prosecution Function(Lexington Books).
trialdex litigation tools
ADA employment discrimination
admissibility of documents
automobiles searches
character evidence
police interrogations
predicate convictions
reentry of removed aliens
retroactivity
Ambrogi writes
New Site Is Comprehensive Resource for Federal and State Jury Instructions
Formally launched yesterday, the site provides a searchable collection all official or quasi-official federal civil and criminal instructions and annotations, as well as an index of 20,000 legal terms, statutes, CFRs and Supreme Court cases referenced in jury instructions.
The index includes every reference in a federal instruction or annotation to a U.S. Supreme Court decision, a U.S. Code statute, a C.F.R. provision, and a federal rule.
The site does not index state instructions, but provides links to all state instructions that are posted online and uses a Google search integration to enable full-text search of all state instructions.
The site also offers a selection of “Trialdex tools,” which are flowcharts and Q&As that help a user analyze causes of action and other complex legal problems.
For example, the Americans with Disabilities Act tool defines the elements of and common defenses to an ADA action. The police interrogations tool identifies constitutional and statutory issues that affect the admissibility of a defendant’s out-of-court statements.
