Procedural Criminal Law

Catalog description

What the public believes the police can do is largely shaped by television and the movies. This course identifies how wrong television can be when it comes to real-life crime, police investigations, and criminal prosecutions. Important constitutional concepts such as the laws behind search and seizures, custodial arrests, interrogations, pre-trial identifications, constitutional rights of the accused, the legalities of wiretaps and electronic surveillance, and how police activities are always under constitutional scrutiny and evolve within the American judicial system will all be the subject of discussion. (3 contact hours)