CRIM 210 - Criminal Procedure

3 Credits: (3 lecture)

Course Description
This course will introduce the student to the principles of criminal procedure with particular emphasis on federal and state constitutional limitations and rights.

Prerequisite CRIM 200.

A. Explain the federal constitutional provisions affecting criminal law and its enforcement.

B. Identify and apply judicially established concepts (such as the exclusionary rule and right of privacy) designed to effectuate constitutional provisions.

C. Describe and analyze the interaction of state and federal constitutional provisions.

Content
A. Constitutional limitations on power to create and define criminal offenses.

1. Freedom of Speech and Press

2. Freedom of Religion

3. Right of Privacy

4. Right to “Bear Arms”

5. Self-Incrimination

6. Cruel and Unusual Punishment

7. Due Process

8. Equal Protection

B. Limitations upon law enforcement

1. Entrapment

2. Identification Procedures

3. Criminal Interrogation and Confessions

a. “Miranda” rights

b. Other limitations

D. The Exclusionary Rule

Student Evaluation
Grades will be based on periodic examinations, final examination, and writing assignments.Bibliography
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Cook, Joseph G. Constitutional Rights of the Accused. 2nd ed. Rochester, NY: Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, 1986.

Costopoulos, William C. The Price of Acquittal. New York: Carlton Press, 1982.

Davis, Bertha. Instead of Prison. New York: F. Watts, 1986.

Demaris, Ovid. How Greed, Corruption, and the Mafia Turned Atlantic City Into–the Boardwalk Jungle. New York: Bantam Books, 1986.

Dix, George E. Criminal Law: Cases and Materials. 3rd ed. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing, 1987.

Downes, David M. Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule-Breaking. 2nd ed. New York: Clarendon Press, 1988.

Eddy, Paul. The Cocaine Wars. 1st ed. New York: Norton, 1988.

Fletcher, George P. A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernard Goetz and the Law on Trial, New York: Free Press; London: Collier Macmillan, 1988.

Friedman, Lawrence M. Crime and Punishment in American History. New York: Basic Books, 1993.

Gottfredson, Stephen D. America’s Correctional Crisis: Prison Populations and Public Policy. (Contributions in Criminology and Penology, 0732-4464, No. 17). New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.

Hall, John Wesley, Jr. Search and Seizure. Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Co., 1982 (with cumulative supplement).

Harr, J. Scott and Karen M. Hess. Criminal Procedure. St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 1990.

Hills, Stuart L. Corporate Violence: Injury and Death for Profit. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1987.

LaFave, Wayne R. A Treatise of the Fourth Amendment. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co. (Current edition with current pocket part.)