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COURSE MATERIALS: SALTZBURG & CAPRA, AMERICAN CRIMINAL
PROCEDURE, 9 th
EDITION
2011 Supplement to AMERICAN CRIMINAL
PROCEDURE, 9 th
EDITION
PERIODIC HANDOUTS
COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND GRADING:
Your grade will be based primarily on your performance on the final examination.
The final exam will be a 3 hour open book examination. Your grade may be raised one step for outstanding class participation. Class attendance and punctuality are extremely important and essential to success in the course.
SYLLABUS
I. Criminal Procedure Overview (Posted at MyWCL)
II. The Fourth Amendment – Searches and Seizures
A.
Jill Scott, “Watching Me” (handout)
B. Katz and Applications of Katz
30 – 51
51 – 71
71 – 84
C. The Warrant Clause, Spinelli & Gates
84 – 89
90 – 112
112 – 128
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E. Probable Cause, Specificity and Reasonableness
129 – 149
F. Executing the Warrant
150 – 169
Handout
G.
Arrests
169 – 193
Supplement 5 – 13
H. Stop and Frisk
193 – 212
H.
The Line Between a “Stop” and an “Encounter”
212 – 232
I. Grounds for a Stop: Reasonable Suspicion
232 – 254
254 – 269
J. Brief and Limited Detentions: The Line Between Stop and Arrest
269 – 288
K. Search Incident to Arrest/Pretextual Stops & Arrests/Plain View & Plain
Touch
288 – 309
309 – 335
335 – 342
Video Presentation
Handout
L. Automobile Searches
342 – 361
M. Exigent Circumstances
361 – 366
Supplement 13 – 16
366 – 375
Supplement 16 – 25
375 – 380
N. “Special Needs” Searches and Drug Testing
380 – 381
395 – 406
Supplement 25 – 34
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406 – 428
P. Consent Searches
462 – 484
Q. The Exclusionary Rule
494 – 496 (stop at end of note)
R. Standing
541 – 557
S.
The Fruits of a Search
557 – 569
III. The Fifth Amendment – Self-Incrimination and Confessions
A.
The Fifth Amendment Privilege
596 – 601
B. Confessions and Due Process
651 – 670
C. Miranda/Dickerson
670 – 685
691 – 699
D.
Miranda Exceptions/Defining Custodial Interrogation
699 – 719
719 – 725
Supplement 48 – 60
725 – 741
Supplement 61 – 66
E. Waiver of Miranda Rights
743 – 755
Supplement 66 – 77
756 – 765
Supplement 78 – 86
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