Criminal Procedure

Catalog description

This course is a survey of the constitutional rights we enjoy when we are stopped, arrested, searched, or questioned by the police. Emphasis is placed on Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment rights (search and seizure, coerced confessions, right to counsel, entrapment, wiretapping, and due process) and on close reading of Supreme Court opinions. At the end of the course, students playing the roles of lawyers will deliver short oral arguments to the class. Required for Criminal Law concentrators and minors. Legal Studies concentrators and minors must take either Criminal Law or this course.