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CO ne mE Gute A aL SENSITIVE Manl-ID: LHBSAIN LEGAL HANDBOOK FOR SPECIAL AGENTS INTRODUCTION eee SECTION QO. FOREWORD AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING THIS HANDBOOK **EFPDte: 04/28/1978 MCRT#: 0 Div: D9 Cav: SecCls: 0-1 FOREWORD AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING THIS HANDBOOK The Legal Handbook for Special Agents is not intended to be a treatise on the law. Rather, it is designed as a compilation of basic principles of constitutional and criminal procedural law in those areas of greatest concern to the Agent-Investigator. It 1s written in understandable language and incorporates, where possible, applicable Bureau policy. This handbook was prepared by the|Office of the General | Counsel | based on Supreme Court decisions or, in those areas where the Supreme Court has not addressed a particular legal issue, on an analysis of lower Federal court decisions. The main body of the handbook contains the general rules in effect - for each area of the law discussed. Appendix 4 at the end of the handbook contains information on selected Federal circuit courts of appeals cases that are in conflict, in whole or in part, with the general rule. Therefore, in using the hand- book, Agent-Investigators are required to scan Appendix 4 for any special rules in effect in their circuit, in addition to locating the general rule in the main body of the handbook. Appendix 4 is broken down by section (Search and Seizure, Pro- bable Cause, Confessions, etc.); therefore, Special Agents need not review the entire Appendix each time the handbook is used, Local policies and practices of U.S. Magistrates SENSITIVE Printed: 08/20/2003 06:43:34 Page 1