First Assignment Spring 2021
Criminal Procedure I
LAW 621 Section 51
Edmund Searby
Assignment details
I. Introduction
January 20, 2021 – Lecture: overview of course and plan for classes; “law and order” versus individual rights; sources of limits on police power; the Bill of Rights and the Warren Court’s “Criminal Procedure Revolution;” A counter-revolution?
Lead Students: N/A
Reading: Learning Criminal Procedure, Simmons and Hutchins, Second Edition, West 2019,(“Learning Crim. Pro.”) Chapters I (pp. 1-8), II (pp. 19-21), and III.
II. The Fourth Amendment
a. Scope of application of the Fourth Amendment