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Criminal Procedure Investigation

Jeanine Bell
B601, Fall, 2008

Description

Concentrating primarily on the Fourth Amendment, with some examination of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, this course examines the constitutional constraints that regulate the conduct of state and federal law enforcement officers conducting criminal investigations. In addition to clarifying the law in this complex area, this course places particular emphasis on how lower courts, and police and others in law enforcement actually use the criminal procedure rules. Areas to be covered include: searches and seizures of persons and property, arrest, roadblocks and other suspicionless seizures, wiretapping, and undercover activity.