Criminal Procedure I (all 2nd-year students) (LAW-508-005)
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Meets: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM (MW) - Room 602
Enrolled: 60 / Limit: 60
Notices
Required 2nd-year JD
Description
The Criminal Procedure I course generally focuses on pretrial criminal procedure and constitutional limitations on government power to ferret out and suppress crime. The course also addresses how constitutional doctrine tries to protect against, or remedy, government overreaching and unacceptably invasive or abusive practices. Topics we will cover include search and seizure law, technology-enhanced surveillance, interception of electronic data, stop and frisks, traffic stops, profiling, arrests, the exclusionary rule, police interrogation, the right to counsel and plea bargaining—which is how more than 90 percent of criminal cases are actually decided and terminated.
Textbooks and Other Materials
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• RONALD JAY ALLEN ET AL., CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: INVESTIGATION AND THE RIGHT TO COUNSEL (Aspen Publishers 2d ed. 2005).
• 2009 SUPPLEMENT TO ALLEN ET AL. COMPREHENSIVE CRIMINAL PROCEDUREFirst Class Readings
• Casebook pages 3-9; 21-25 (from Packer excerpt to Roberts excerpt); 77-80; 93-100 (Section B. Incorporation); 597-601 (Whren v. United States only) • The Constitution’s Criminal Procedure Provisions, posted on Blackboard • Flow Chart: Criminal Justice Process, posted on Blackboard
(Scans of the first class readings are available on Blackboard under the Course Documents tab. The course syllabus is available on Blackboard under the Course Information tab.)Syllabus
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