Criminal Procedure: Adjudication

Description

This is one of two survey courses dealing with constitutional criminal procedure. "Criminal Investigation" considers questions that arise under the fourth, fifth, and sixth amendments regarding investigations, interrogations, and charging decisions. This course, "Criminal Adjudication," looks at the way the judicial system handles criminal cases. Topics include the right to counsel (and the concomitant right to "effective assistance" of counsel), prosecutorial discretion and plea bargaining, joinder and severance, discovery, the right to jury trial, double jeopardy, sentencing, and appellate review.

  • Number of Units: 3
  • Course Number: 315

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