Day 1: Course Orientation and Introduction.
Day 2: Liberty - Balancing Liberty and Order, Objective bases to infringe Liberty, and Appellate Courts.
Day 3: Liberty (Continued) - Constitutional Order, Federalism, and Due Process (Introduction.)
Day 4: Due Process (continued) – Amendment V, Amendment XIV, Incorporation of Rights at the State level, Equal Protection, and the Due Process “Revolution.”
Day 5: The Definition of Searches & Seizures - Warrants and Amendment IV in general, the Characteristics of a Search, Expectations of Privacy, and Private “Searches.”
Day 6: The Definition of Searches & Seizures - Third Party Doctrine and Selected forms of Electronic Information Gathering.
Day 7: The Definition of Searches & Seizures - Plain View, Public Places, Open Fields, and Encounters with Persons.
Day 8: Investigatory Stops and Protective Searches - The nature of Stops and their Bases.
Day 9: Investigatory Stops and Protective Searches - Proving / explaining Reasonable Suspicion, Sources of Reasonable Suspicion, the Purpose of a Stop, the Scope of a Stop, and the Result of a Stop.
Day 10: Investigatory Stops and Protective Searches - Frisks, Stops at Roadsides, Frisks at Roadsides, Checkpoints / Roadblocks, and Searches / Seizures at International Borders.
Day 11: Seizure of Persons: Arrests - Definition, When does Arrest Occur, Basis, and “Arrest-able” Offenses.
Day 12: Seizure of Persons: Arrests - Probable Cause; A Balance Point, Warrant Requirement, and the Use of Force.
Day 13: Review For First Examination.
Day 14: First Examination.
Day 15: Searches for Evidence and Amendment IV - Searches (vs. non-searches), Constitutional Standards, the Warrant Process.
Day 16: Searches for Evidence and Amendment IV - Scope and Manner, Knock and Announce, Exceptions to the Warrant requirement: Incident to Arrest and Consent.
Day 17: Searches for Evidence and Amendment IV - Exceptions to the Warrant requirement: Consent (continued), Vehicles, and Exigent Circumstances
Day 18: Special Needs Searches and Amendment IV - Definitions, Types: Inventories, Borders, and Airports.
Day 19: Special Needs Searches and Amendment IV - Custody Related Searches, Public School Student Searches, College Dormitory Searches. and Employee Drug Testing.
Day 20: Self Incrimination and Amendments V, VI, and Amendment XI - How confessions are obtained; a practical view.
Day 21: Self Incrimination and Amendments V, VI, and Amendment XIV - Constitutional Standards, Admissions / Confessions, Compulsion - Overbearing the Will, Right to Counsel, Miranda and the duty to warn - Custody.
Day 22: Self Incrimination and Amendments V, VI, and Amendment XIV - Miranda and the duty to warn - Interrogation, Public Safety Exception to Miranda, Waiver, and Involuntariness.
Day 23: Identification Procedures and Amendments V, VI, and XIV - Constitutional Standards, Lineups, Showups, and Due Process Implications.
Day 24: Identification Procedures and Amendments V, VI, and XIV - Due Process Analysis, Right to Counsel, Trends to Enhance Reliability, and Forensic Evidence.
Day 25: Remedies for Constitutional and Other Violations I: The Exclusionary Rule - The Rule - What, How, Why; Assorted Triggering Acts, Derivative Evidence, General Exceptions - Independent Source.
Day 26: Remedies for Constitutional and Other Violations I: The Exclusionary Rule - General Exceptions - Inevitable Discovery; Attenuation; Collateral Use; Cross Examination of a testifying Defendant; 3 Developing Exceptions - No knock, Good faith, Honest mistake, and a Special Exception - Patane.
Day 27: Review for Second Examination.
Day 28: Second Examination.
Day 29: Remedies for Constitutional and Other Violations II – Non-Exclusionary Remedies for Official Misconduct - Overview of 5 Remedies.
Day 30: Remedies for Constitutional and Other Violations II - Criminal prosecution, Bivens suits against Federal Officers, FTCA suits against Federal Officers or entities, 42 USC 1983 Federal Civil Rights suits against State Officers and entities, and State civil suits against State Officers and entities.
Day 31: Court Proceedings I, Part I: Pretrial - Charging and Initial Detention.
Day 32: Court Proceedings I, Part I: Pretrial - First appearance, Bail, Continued Detention, and Right to Counsel.
Day 33: Court Proceedings I, Part I: Pretrial - Grand Jury / Preliminary Hearing, Arraignment, and Interlocutory motions.
Day 34: Court Proceedings II, Trial of Case through Conviction - Trial by Jury.
Day 35: Court Proceedings II, Trial of Case through Conviction - Conviction by Guilty Plea.
Day 36: Court Procedures III, Post Conviction Procedures: Sentencing, Appeals, and Habeas Corpus - Sentencing Principles, Sentencing Models, and Sentencing Constraints.
Day 37: Court Procedures III, Post Conviction Procedures: Sentencing, Appeals, and Habeas Corpus - Amendment VIII, Capital Sentencing, Appeals, and Habeas Corpus.
Day 38: Criminal Procedure In Times of Crisis - Domestic Surveillance, Legislative Initiatives, Miranda and Terrorist Suspects, Technical Surveillance, Some Law of War Implications, and Military Commissions.
Day 39: Review for Final Examination.
Day 40: Final Examination.