Criminal Procedure I (LAW-508-003)
Dodd
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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
Please review the following materials before class on Monday, August 22:
I. Background: An Introduction to Criminal Procedure*
- - Israel, Kamisar, and LaFave, Criminal Procedure and the Constitution (2004 ed.) (“IKL”), pp. 1-32
- Dressler, Understanding Criminal Procedure (“Dressler”), pp. 1-87 (skim pp. 55-74)
*We will briefly review these background materials in class. These introductory chapters are primarily meant to provide you with an overview of the key stages in processing a criminal case, as well as other themes and topics we will cover in more detail later in the semester.
II. Defining “Searches”: Applying and Critiquing the Katz Test
- - IKL, pp. 81-86
- Dressler, pp. 89-110
Syllabus
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