Criminal Procedure I (LAW-508-002)
Aaronson
Meets: 06:00 PM - 07:20 PM (TTH) - Room 100
Enrolled: 79 / Limit: 90
Notices
Required 2nd-year JD
Description
Pretrial criminal procedure and constitutional limitations on the use of power under the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Topics include arrest; search and seizure; police interrogation, confessions, lineups, and other pretrial identification procedures; use of informants; scope and administration of exclusionary rules; and the rights of indigent defendants to counsel, transcript, and other aids.
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First Class Readings
1st Class Assignment Law-508-002 Prof. Aaronson Casebook: James J. Tomkovicz and Welsh S. White, Criminal Procedure: Constitutional Constraints Upon Investigation and Proof, (Fifth Edition, 2004), Lexis Nexus Group (Matthew Bender), ISBN #0-8205-6159-2. (1) CB, pp. ix-xix (Introduction): An Overview of the Criminal Justice System; (2) CB, p. 829 (Introductory Note) and 833-837: The Right To Assistance of Counsel At Trial: Gideon v. Wainwright (1962; (3) CB, pp. 969-988: The Sources of and Rationales for the Exclusionary Rule - Weeks v. United States (1914); Mapp v. Ohio (1961).