Criminal Procedure I (all 2nd-year students) (LAW-508-006)
Thurschwell
Meets: 03:00 PM - 04:20 PM (MW) - Room 402
Enrolled: 90 / 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.
Textbooks and Other Materials
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Israel, Kamisar, LaFave & King, Criminal Procedure and the Constitution (2007 ed.); Steiker, ed., Criminal Procedure Stories (2006)
First Class Readings
For the first class, please read the materials listed under the first unit ("The Incorporation Debate"), CPC 33-54. I'm not sure whether we will get to Duncan v. Louisiana or not, but we are likely to at least begin discussing it (including the additional background provided by the Criminal Procedure Stories chapter)CPS 261-293.
Syllabus
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