LAWW 41703 — Criminal Procedure: Investigations
Generally this course focuses on: (1) criminal investigation practices, more precisely, contacts between the police and persons suspected or accused of crime, at the time of or shortly before and after arrest; (2) the federal constitutional rights of suspects in their contacts with the police or, stated another way, the federal constitutional restrictions (or lack of restrictions) on the police, based on the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 14th amendments; (3) the exclusionary rule, which limits the admissibility of evidence obtained by the police from suspects in violation of their federal constitutional rights; and (4) United States Supreme Court jurisprudence. (Typically offered: Irregular)