Criminal Procedure
Policies, Course Requirements, Syllabus
REVISED 2/6/06
Feb. 6
S&C 293-334
Supp. 28-37
F. Warrantless Searches
1. Search Incident to Arrest
Feb. 8
S&C 334-340
S&C 340-361
2. Plain View / Plain Touch
3. Automobile Searches
[Guest speakers]
Feb. 13
S&C 340-361
361-379
379-392
Handout #8
3. Auto Searches (cont’d)
4. Exigent Searches
5. Administrative Searches
Feb. 15
S&C 392-440, 442
Handout #9
6. Special Needs Searches
a. School Searches
b. Drug Testing
c. Roadblocks & Checkpoints
e. Community-Caretaking
Feb. 20
No Class
Feb. 22
S&C 442-476
Handout #10
Supp. 38-41
7. Border Searches
8. Consent Searches
9. Wiretapping
Feb. 27
S&C 495-544
G. Exclusionary Rule
President’s Day Observed
1. General Rule & “Fruit of the Poisonous
Tree” Doctrine
Mar. 1
S&C 544-591
2. Independent Source
3. Inevitable Discovery
4. Use of Illegally Seized Evidence for
Other Purposes
5. Good Faith Exception
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Mar. 6
S&C 599-631;
634-639
643-647
664-668
Handout #11
III. FIFTH AMENDMENT: Privilege
Against Compelled Self-Incrimination
A. Introduction
B. Scope
C. " What Is Compulsion"?
D. Commenting on Exercise of Right
E. Non-Testimonial Evidence
F. Documents
G. Immunity
Mar. 8
S&C 672- 686
S&C 690-730
Supp. 57-76
IV. CONFESSIONS
A. Due Process & Involuntariness
B. Fifth Amendment Limitations
1. Miranda
2. Miranda Exceptions
Mar 13
S&C 730-775
Handout #12
3. “Custody & Interrogation”
4. Miranda's Application
5. Waiver
“Dress as Your Favorite C.P.” Day
Mar 15
S&C 775-798;
806-807
Handout #13
Mar 20
No Class
Spring Vacation
Mar 22
No Class
Spring Vacation
Mar 27
S&C 808-831
Handout #14
V. LINE-UPS & IDENTIFICATIONS
C. Confessions & 6th Amendment Right to
Counsel
1. Massiah Rule
2. Undercover Investigations
3. Waiver
4. Exclusionary Rule
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Mar 29
S&C 839- 851;
852-858; 860 –
861; 1300-1310;
1391-1395; 14021405
Handout #15
Supp. 217-231
I. OVERVIEW OF ADJUDICATIVE
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
S&C 862-892;
901-911; 913-917
Review Handout 1
III. SCREENING & CHARGING
S&C 929-940;
960-966; 968-971
Skim S&C 940945
Handout #16
IV. BAIL
Apr. 10
S&C 981-988;
1000-1008;10221029
Handout #17
Supp. 102-106
V. DISCOVERY
A. Prosecutorial Duties: Statutory &
Constitutional
B. Preserving Exculpatory Evidence
C. Discovery by the Prosecution
Apr. 12
S&C 1035-1044;
1052-1057; 10661067; 1086-1093
VI. PLEA BARGAINING AND GUILTY
PLEAS
A. Plea Bargaining
B. Guilty Pleas
Apr. 17
S&C 1094-1098;
1103-1111; 11141116, 1127-1128
Handout #18
VII. SPEEDY TRIAL RIGHTS
Apr. 3
Apr. 5
II. RIGHT TO COUNSEL
A. General Right
B. Standard of Effective
C. Self-Representation
A. Police & Prosecutorial Discretion
B. Grand Jury
C. Preliminary Hearing
A.
B.
C.
D.
Criminal Cases
Enemy Combatants
Sexual Predators
Aliens
VIII. GOVERNMENT'S BURDEN OF
PROOF
Apr. 19
No Class
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Apr. 24
S&C 1171-1193;
1213-1228; 12311233; 1254-1255
IX. RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL
A. Fundamental Right
B. Requirements of Jury
C. Jury Composition & Selection
D. Inconsistent Verdicts
Apr.
25
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S&C 1259-1271;
1277-1290
Handout #19
X PRETRIAL PUBLICITY
S&C 1436-1450;
1462-1464; 15331544
Handout #20
XII. DOUBLE JEOPARDY
XI. SENTENCING
Extended class, 10:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
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