Surviving the Alphabet Soup

This book presents the culmination of thirty years experience with the specialized field of practice involving the federal criminal justice system. Readers will encounter the harsh realities of the federal system, which is quite unlike any state jurisprudential system and learn how to avoid the pitfalls, penalties, and trappings of a system that is geared to convict. In common language, the author paints the federal landscape in ways unlike any other textbook on this topic. From the initiation by any federal investigative agency, such as the FBI, DEA, or any of the other three-lettered acronym designations for federal authorities, this treatise instructs every reader in the fine points that state practitioners so often miss"from the inception of a federal Grand Jury, through the orchestrated and methodical progression through charging, negotiations, pleas, sentencing, and incarceration. This is the first comprehensive book that fully explains the federal complexities in non-legalese terminology.