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WESTLAWNEXTIntroduction to Criminal Law – Cosgrove Militano

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WESTLAWNEXTIntroduction to Criminal Law – Cosgrove Militano

Select New York Supreme

Court, Appellate Division

When you select any court in

Westlaw, in this case the NY

Supreme Court Appellate Division

(intermediate level appeals court),

you first get a list of the top to most

recently decided cases for that court.

Type in your

crime, for

example,

robbery.

Select “Most Detail” for

viewing of your search

terms.Once you have

decided which 2

cases you want,

click on the

hypertext link to

each case.

You should be able

to find hypertext

links to the key

statute the case is

based on.

You can

access the

statute with

hypertext

links to the

statute right

in the case.

NY cases

interpreting

the statute:The statute:

Scroll down to the

bottom of the

statute.

See “Practice

Commentary”

analyzing the

robbery statute.

Helpful

explanation

including

case law

FIND ANOTHER CASE

DEALING WITH THE CRIME

YOU ARE RESEARCHING

THAT ALSO DEALS WITH A

PROCEDURAL ISSUE.Examples: search and seizure, confession, Miranda

To return to the

main Westlaw

screen from

anywhere, click

on

WestlawNext .

REPEAT THE STEPS YOU

USED TO FIND YOUR 2

CASES.(see slides 8-13)

Type in your

procedural

issue.

Here you

have cases

that deal

with the

crime of

robbery

AND the

procedural

issue of

Miranda.

STATUTORY SEARCHING

TO PRINT, EMAIL OR

DOWNLOAD See instructions on Professor Cosgrove Militano’s

Introduction to Criminal Law PowerPoint on the Criminal

Justice Subject Guide (click here).

NEED MORE HELP?Contact Val Waldin at 518.629.7319 or

v.waldin@hvcc.edu.