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Whether you’re researching juvenile sex offender laws or marijuana taxation or jails or something in between, you will want to use an Index, that is, “indexes to periodical literature,” including magazine, journal, newsletter, and other print and online specialty or general publications indexes.

Indexes save you time, lots of time, and enable to you to locate articles you might otherwise miss if you search only full-text resources or simply “Google” a subject.

Most of the following indexes are online, but none is free online, although one or more may be “free” to institutional members, e.g. public library cardholders, educational institution students, staff, and faculty, and professional associations, to name a few groups that offer no-charge online index and other database and literature searching to their members.

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It’s not hard to be perplexed when trying to understand the U.S. Code (link to searchable versions) and the niceties of codification. Maybe this will help:

Lost Laws: What We Can’t Find In The U.S. Code, Legal Research Plus (blog), May 23, 2010, by Paul Lomio:

(Re Article: Lost Laws: What We Can’t Find In The U.S. Code, by Will Tress, Golden Gate University Law Review, Vol. 40, Issue #2, Winter 2010, p. 129) (SSRN direct link.)

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Periodically we are asked about jury instructions for the Oregon federal district court. We have the following on good authority, though in the world of legal research, all is subject to variation, circumstances, and change:

1) The Oregon Federal District Court has not (as of this date) produced its own jury instructions. They do make use of the ones from the Oregon State Bar (see Oregon Uniform Criminal and Civil Jury Instructions), Ninth Circuit Jury Instructions, and check federal court Local Rules.

2 ) There are jury instructions for the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. These are also available in print and online, free:

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Libraries get a lot of those “I can’t remember that book (story, poem, etc.) title” types of questions, which we love because every good librarian loves a mystery that requires some biblio-detective work.

Even with the web, some titles remain elusive, so what’s a librarian or a reader to do?

There are a number of websites that might help with the search. A lot of sites require registration, which wouldn’t be a bad thing except it’s one more password to remember. But if you can’t get that elusive title out of your head, maybe it’s worth the trouble.

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Hot on the heels of the June 30, 2010, Oregon Court of Appeals Court case on Miranda warnings, comes this July 1, 2010, Oregon Supreme Court case:

State of Oregon v. Hyatt Robin Vondehn (SC S056371):

Media Release excerpt: “Today the Oregon Supreme Court held that Article I, section 12, of the Oregon Constitution requires the police to give Miranda warnings before they conduct custodial interrogation to ensure that a suspect’s decision to waive the right against self-incrimination is both knowing and voluntary. When the police fail to give Miranda warnings, they violate the Oregon Constitution and the state is precluded from using either statements that a suspect makes or physical evidence derived from that constitutional violation to prosecute a defendant. The court also held that when the police do not administer Miranda warnings at the onset of a custodial interrogation, but later correct course and deliver the required warnings, the state must establish that the belated warnings effectively and accurately inform the defendant of his or her rights to remain silent and to counsel under the Oregon Constitution….” (Link to July 1, 2010, Media Release.) (Link to full case.)

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Justice Bedsworth in his July 2010 Criminal Waste of Space column, in the OC Lawyer Magazine, tells a couple of his favorite judicial clerks stories. New lawyers, especially, should pay attention:

The Power and the Glory, by Justice William W. Bedsworth, July 2010

Excerpt: “…I don’t know, there may be some 9-armed, 6-eyed, 3-brained creatures on Arcturus 7 who can handle a clerk’s duties better than Dwayne, but certainly nobody on this planet could touch him.

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