I. Introduction

January 7, 2019 – Lecture: overview of course and plan

for classes; background on criminal investigations and

police practice; sources of limits on police power; the

Bill of Rights and the Warren Court’s “Criminal

Procedure Revolution;” competing interests underlying

expanding and contracting criminal procedure

guarantees.

Lead Students: N/A

Reading: Learning Criminal Procedure, Simmons and

Hutchins, West 2015 and Supplement 2018 (available to

print or download online) (“Learning Crim. Pro.”)

Chapters I (p. 1-7), II, and III

II. The Fourth Amendment

a. Scope of application of the Fourth Amendment