WRITING A CRIMINAL REPORT & LEGAL BRIEF

By Daria T. LaTorre, JD, Duquesne University

Mary Ellen Wells, JD, LLM, Alvernia University

Chapter Objectives

• Understand the process and importance of police writing

• Develop the content appropriate for a police report

• Construct a police report

• Understand the standard elements of a legal brief and identify legal issues

• Formulate a legal brief by developing persuasive legal arguments supported by facts

• Understand the standard elements of a legal case brief