Class,

The assignment for the first day (week actually) of class is to read Chapters 1-4 of the casebook, which is Ric Simmons and Renee McDonald Hutchins, Learning Criminal Procedure (2d edition 2019). In Chapter 1 you may skim Part D (pages 8-17), which is a very helpful general overview of the criminal process but includes a lot of things you would study in Crim Pro II rather than in this course. Four chapters sounds like a lot but much of this is introductory material; it's a total of 54 pages (10 of which you can skim) for the first two class sessions.

Make sure to get the second edition of the casebook. If you purchase the book new or purchase the eBook, you will have access to a very helpful set of multiple choice quizzes for each chapter, as well as several short answer questions. That is optional, however. I will give my own quizzes throughout the semester.

Class will be a mix of synchronous and asynchronous. We will meet M/W at our scheduled class time, 10:50am, but we will only meet for 60 minutes rather than 75 minutes. Every other Wednesday we will have a quiz on Blackboard, which you will take immediately after class during that extra 15 minutes that we are not using.

I am creating a Blackboard site, and all assignments and quizzes will be managed through that site. I will also record brief lectures, sometimes with powerpoint slides, that I will post on Blackboard for you to view before class. When we meet (via Zoom), our focus will not be on lecture, but on interaction, including some smaller group discussions.

I will e-mail you with additional information as we get closer to August 24.