From the Litigation & Dockets tab at the top of the Bloomberg Law homepage, Litigation Resources provides access to all primary legal material to research issues in criminal procedure: state and federal court opinions, court rules, regulations, dockets and some jury instructions.
Also available are BNA Litigation Portfolios and Current Awareness Secondary Sources on general legal topics.
Under the Selected Books & Treatises column the link to
Additionally from the Bloomberg Law Home Page the link to BNA Law Reports under the Stay Current column takes a researcher to the entire list of BNA daily and weekly topical reports.
Expanding on the Criminal Law subject tab links to the:
From the LexisNexis Advance Homepage use the Browse dropdown to go to By Jurisdiction > Missouri.
On the left side expand Practice Areas & Topics to Criminal Law and Procedure for online access to Forms from Matthew Bender and the Missouri Bar CLE publications.
Removing the Criminal Law and Procedure filter provides access to Missouri Bar CLE publications across all topics.
Back to the Browse dropdown go to By Practice Area > Criminal Law & Procedure > All Criminal Law & Procedure (at top of column).
Search Within Sources (top left) allows a keyword search within the overall list.
Category > Secondary Materials > Treatises provides a list of full-text treatises to which Search Within Sources applies aas well as Jurisdiction filters e.g. Kansas > Kansas Criminal Law Handbook; or Missouri > Mo Bar CLE publications.
Back to Browse dropdown go to Topics > Criminal Law & Procedure > Sub-Topics e.g. Habeas Corpus > Continue drilling through Sub-sub-tropics e.g. Habeas Corpus > Presence of Petitioner > Evidentiary Hearings > Ineffective Assistance of Counsel > Get Documents > then filter by Primary vs. Secondary, Form of Secondary, Jurisdiction etc.
Back to LexisNexis Advance Homepage > Lexis Advance Research dropdown > Public Records > Courts & Filings > Criminal Records.
Back to LexisNexis Advance Homepage > Lexis Advance Research dropdown > lexis.com (the original Lexis) > Area of Law By Topic View More > Criminal Law:
Secondary Sources: From the WestlawNext Homepage click on Secondary Sources and under By Type go to Texts & Treatises
The encyclopedias American Jurisprudence 2d and Corpus Juris Secundum are excellent starting places for a broad overview of the organization of any field of law, to see how it is structured and what the major elements are within each field.
Click on AmJur2d for the topical list and scroll to Criminal Law. See for example Part Two, XXI Rights and Privileges of Persons in Police Custody > Click > go to §916 What constitutes custody and Click. The Am. Jur2d article combines the West Key Number Digest for caselaw searching; the American Law Report (ALR) Library, other related West treatises e.g. Proof of Facts, the analysis with footnotes and supplemental cases. Follow the same process in Corpus Juris Secundum for similar results.
Go back to the WestlawNext Homepage click on Secondary Sources and under By Type go to American Law Reports (ALR). Unlike the broad overview of AmJur or CJS, ALR provides heavily annotated and deep treatment of very specific questions. Click American Law Reports and on the right under Tools & Resources , click American Law Reports Digest. Scroll to Criminal Law and click. Use the search box at the top for <custody> or scroll to XVII Evidence (M) Statements...by or on Behalf of the Accused and scroll to 411.21 What Constitutes Custody then 411.22 for link to specific article What Constitutes "Custodial Interrogation" by Police Officer Within Rule of Miranda v. Arizona Requiring That Suspect be Informed of Federal Constitutional Rights Before Custodial Interrogation—Where Unspecified as to Precise Location of Roadside Questioning by Law Enforcement Officers, 58 A.L.R.6th 215.
State Materials : Open this tab and click on Missouri then under Secondary Sources > Missouri Practice Series. Options include:
Practice Areas: From the WestlawNext Homepage click on the Practice Areas tab then Criminal Law. In addition to primary materials and court documents etc. under Secondary Sources click All Criminal Law Secondary Sources. Note in particular All Criminal Law Texts & Treatises and, under Forms, the Complete Manual of Criminal Forms.
Topic & Key Number Caselaw Searching: To use the West Digest System of Topic and Key Numbers, start at the Westlaw Next Homepage and click on the Tools tab and then the West Key Number System. Scroll to Topic #110 Criminal Law > click > scroll to XVII Evidence (M) Statements...by Accused > Warnings > and click on Custodial Interrogation in General . Based on jurisdictional selections at the top next to the search bar the results are headnotes from relevant cases in those jurisdictions. Click on Change to select other jurisdictions and Apply to transfer the Topic and Key Numbers Headnote results to those new jurisdictions.
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