Lessons by Subject Outline - Criminal Procedure
- 1. 4th Amendment
- Fourth Amendment Overview (CRMPRO01)
- 1.1. Searches and seizures with a warrant
- 1.1.1. Issuance of Warrant
- 1.1.2. Neutral and detached magistrate
- 1.1.3. Probable cause
- 1.1.4. Particularity
- 1.1.5. 1st Amendment issues arising under search & seizure (searches of media, elected officials)
- 1.1.6. Property subject to seizure
- 1.1.7. "Facially Valid" Warrants
- 1.1.8. Execution of Warrant
- 1.2. What is a "search"?
- 1.2.1. Definitions of a search (reasonable expectation of privacy - Katz; Kyllo/originalist view)
- 1.2.2. Open fields
- 1.3. Searches and seizures without a warrant
- 1.3.1. “Stop and frisk”
- 1.3.2. Search incident to arrest
- 1.3.3. Vehicular searches
- 1.3.4. Consent searches
- 1.3.5. “Plain view”
- 1.3.6. Exigent circumstances
- 1.4. Suspicionless searches
- Administrative Searches (CRMPRO20)
- 1.4.1. Public schools
- 1.4.2. Government buildings
- 1.4.3. Vessel searches
- 1.4.4. Border searches
- 1.4.5. Prisons
- 1.4.6. Drug testing
- 1.5. Probable Cause
- 1.6. Enforcement
- 1.6.1. The Exclusionary Rule
- 1.7. Police Encouragement
- 1.7.1. Entrapment
- 2. 5th Amendment
- 2.1. Grand jury indictments
- 2.1.1. Requirements for a valid indictment
- 2.2. Double jeopardy
- 2.2.1. Collateral Estoppel
- 2.2.2. Double jeopardy and mistrials
- 2.2.3. The “Same Offense” Doctrine
- 2.2.4. Dual Sovereignty
- 2.3. Privilege against Self-Incrimination
- 2.3.1. Elements: (A) Testimonial, (B) Compelled, (C) Incriminating
- 2.3.2. Types of immunity
- 2.3.3. Co-defendant confessions
- 2.1. Grand jury indictments
- 3. Confession / Interrogation - Miranda rights
- 3.1. Miranda I
- Miranda I: Custody, Interrogation and Waiver (CRMPRO18)
- 3.1.1. Decision - warnings/Duckworth
- 3.1.2. Custody - Berkemer
- 3.1.3. Interrogation - Innis; Muniz
- 3.1.4. Waiver - Butler
- 3.2. Miranda II
- Miranda II: Assertion of the Rights, Exceptions, and Other Limits (CRMPRO25)
- 3.2.1. Right to Silence - Mosley
- 3.2.2. Right to Counsel - Edwards; Minnick
- 3.2.3. Limits and Exceptions - Elstad; Seibert; Quarles; Patane
- 3.3. Other Limits to Interrogation
- Other Constitutional Limits to Interrogation (CRMPRO21)
- 3.3.1. Due Process
- 3.3.2. 6th
- 3.3.3. Recording Requirement
- 3.1. Miranda I
- 4. 6th Amendment - Jury Trial Rights
- 4.1. Right to a speedy trial
- 4.1.1. When the right attaches
- 4.1.2. Barker v. Wingo four-factor balancing test
- 4.1.3. Due Process Limits to pre-indictment delay
- 4.2. Right to a public trial (media access - television)
- 4.3. Right to compulsory process
- 4.4. Right to an impartial jury
- 4.4.1. Fair-cross section requirement
- 4.4.2. Jury size requirements
- 4.4.3. Unanimity requirements
- 4.4.4. Voir Dire: (i) What questions are permissible?; (ii) For-Cause challenges; (iii) Peremptory Challenges-Batson v. Kentucky
- 4.4.5. Jury Nullification
- 4.5. Right to a jury trial
- Right to Trial by Jury - Criminal Prosecution, Size, and Unanimity (CRMPRO27)
- 4.5.1. Requirements for the right to attach
- 4.6. Right to confront witnesses against D
- 4.6.1. Confrontation absent face-to-face encounters
- 4.6.2. Crawford v. Washington rule
- 4.7. Right to have assistance of counsel - when and in what circumstances
- 4.7.1. Nature of Charged Offense
- 4.7.2. Non-trial proceedings
- 4.8. Dimensions of Rights
- 4.8.1. Requirements for appointed counsel
- 4.8.2. Right to effective assistance of counsel
- 4.8.3. Pro Se - Waiver
- 4.8.4. Standby Counsel
- 4.9. Notice of accusation(s)
- 4.10. Identification
- 4.1. Right to a speedy trial
- 5. Sentencing
- Sentencing and Punishment (Non-capital) (CRMPRO16)
- 5.1. Who must decide-Judges or Juries?
- 5.2. Judicial Vindictiveness in sentencing
- 6. Plea bargaining & Alford guilty pleas - Nolo pleas
- 7. Post-conviction Remedies & Prisoner Litigation
- 8. Investigation
- 8.1. Police Encouragement
- 8.1.1. Entrapment
- 8.1. Police Encouragement
