Course Description
This course teaches how the 4th and 5th Amendments guide and limit law enforcement officers when they search or seize citizens and when they conduct pre-arrest interviews or post- arrest (custodial) interrogations. Students will also learn practical skills, including how to conduct a motion to suppress hearing and a Jackson-Denno hearing.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Graduate law students will not be doing any extra work beyond
that required of the Juris Doctor students. J.D. students are
post-baccalaureate students and the workload expected of them
is the same workload expected of post-baccalaureate graduate
students. Law students are professional students, not
undergraduate students. Graduate law students are primarily
international lawyers seeking expertise in the American legal
system. This expertise is gained through exposure to Juris
Doctor courses.
Athena Title
Prosecution I
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in JURI 5150E or JURI 7150E
Non-Traditional Format
Course includes a service-learning project during the semester that either employs skills or knowledge learned in the course or teaches new skills or knowledge related to course objectives. Students will be involved in the planning and implementation of the projects(s) and may spend time outside of the classroom. Students will be engaged in the service-learning component for approximately 50-75% of overall instructional time.
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Course Objectives
Students in this course will learn how the 4th Amendment and U.S. Supreme Court precedents serve to guide and limit law enforcement officers in their searches and seizures of citizens in the so-called “three tiers of police-citizen encounters” (mere encounters, investigative detentions, and custodial arrests). Students will also learn about the Exclusionary Rule -– the 4th Amendment’s court-created enforcement mechanism –- and its exceptions. Students will further learn how the 5th Amendment and U.S. Supreme Court precedents serve to guide and limit law enforcement officers in their pre-arrest interviews and post- arrest (custodial) interrogations of suspects. Students will also learn practical skills, including how to prepare for and conduct a 4th Amendment motion to suppress hearing and a 5th Amendment Jackson-Denno hearing. Students will acquire the foregoing knowledge and practical skills through a combination of classroom lectures, classroom exercises, “how-to guides,” and select readings in our text: Prosecutorial Ethics. Students will also read and study the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct relating to special ethical rules applicable to prosecutors. Values. Students will begin the process of learning the proper role of a prosecutor as “minister of justice” in our criminal justice system.
Topical Outline
1. New Student Orientation – Overview of Course and Program Policies 2. Law of Arrests – 3 Tiers of Police/Citizen Encounters (Mere Encounters) 3. Law of Arrests – 3 Tiers of Police/Citizen Encounters (Investigative Detentions) 4. Law of Arrests – 3 Tiers of Police/Citizen Encounters (Custodial Arrests) 5. Law of Arrests – The Exclusionary Rule and its Exceptions 6. Law of Arrests – Search of Persons 7. Traffic Law I 8. Traffic Law II 9. Motion to Suppress Hearings 10. Miranda v. Arizona and The Miranda Rights 11. Jackson v. Denno and Voluntariness of Statements 12. Jackson/Denno Hearings 13. Georgia Rules of Professional Ethics [Student Practice Rule Certification and Oath] [Pros. Ethics – Chapt. 4 and 8] 14. Case Study
Syllabus
Public CV