| Course ID: | JURI 5150S/7150S. 2 hours. |
| Course Title: | Prosecution I |
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. |
| Oasis Title: | Prosecution I |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in JURI 5150E or JURI 7150E |
| Nontraditional 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) |
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| 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 |
| Honor Code Reference: | UGA Student Honor Code: "I will be academically honest in all of
my academic work and will not tolerate academic dishonesty of
others." A Culture of Honesty, the University's policy and
procedures for handling cases of suspected dishonesty, can be
found at www.uga.edu/ovpi. |