Week 9

March 15 & 17                           Criminal Law Procedure – Warrants & Searches

                                          Hypotheticals from Criminal Procedure

                                          READINGS

• Crim Pro Chap 1 “Unreasonable Search and Seizure” (includes Katz & Caballes and Hypotheticals) (reserve) (Caballes is also on p 284 of Text and Katz v. US could be read here
• Text p. 280 Herring v. U.S. (good faith exception to  exclusionary rule)
• Student Searches –  Safford v. Redding (2009) (reasonableness of search)

 March 17 DAY 2

• Crim Pro Chap 2 The Warrant Requirement (includes (Terry v. Ohio 392 US 1 (1968) &  Grubbs) (on reserve)
• Text p. 273 - Draper (prob cause to arrest)
• Jennifer Thompson, "I was certain but I was wrong" June 18, 2000 NYT
• Charlie Savage, Judges Divided over rising  GPS Surveillance, NYT, Aug 13, 2010
• Warrantless GPS tracking is legal in VA Feb 11, 2011

 Optional Readings (for more information – only if interested as we wont be able to go over these in class):

• Supreme Court and Congress need to make rules for GPS Searches – Boston.com Sept 2, 2010 here and Cato Institute Comment by Julian Sanchez here (Sept 2, 2010)

•  Alberta spends 1million dollars to track high risk offenders (Sept 2010)  here)
• Murder Victim’s dad urges GPS tracking Bill (here)
• Owner Operators Challenge EOBR rule (10/25/2010 –Trucking InfoNews) (mandatory rule requiring black box tracking big trucks – is it a 4A violation?)
• Should Police be able to use Social Network sites to track suspects? See “Police use Facebook Profile to Bust  Underage Drinkers- Is it Legal” (Dec, 4  2009 on Asylum.com) here
• David Freed, The Wrong Man Atlantic Monthly (May 2010) (Investigation of Mark Hatfield during post 9/11 Anthrax Scare)
• David Grann “Trial by Fire - Cameron Todd Willingham, Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?” New Yorker Sept 2009 or Frontline –Death By Fire (Oct 2009) (Willingham investigation)
• Burden of Innocence(Ron Williamson story) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/burden/profiles/williamson.html

• Kassin et al, Police Induced False Confessions, Risk Factors  here
• ID and Lineups see Jascha Hoffman, “Suspect Memories,” Legal Affairs February 2005 http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/January-February-2005/feature_hoffman_janfeb05.msp

•  Optional  PBS – “What Jennifer Saw” (view lineup etc) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dna/
• Video (Three Texan Exonerees) http://www.innocenceproject.org/news/AV-Archive.php
• EyeWitnesses: http://www.truthinjustice.org/witness.htm
• Michael Shermer, on  Ted.com (go to 9 min mark for cognitive bias) (words from the dead –“why we believe strange things”)
• Priscilla Smith “When Machines are Watching: How Warrantless GPS Tracking violates the fourth amendment” Feb 6, 2011 (Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository) (27 pgs)
•  Tim Dees, “Surveillance Technology: An End to Stake Outs” Police [online magazine], Dec 2010

              Assn 5 Due Thurs March 17

              After reading Chap 1 (Unreasonable Searches) and Chap 2 (Warrants)

• Answer case questions 2& 4 on Katz
• Answer case questions 2 & 3 on Caballes
• Complete Hypothetical for Student Analysis from Chap 1 (p 17)
• Answer case questins 2 & 3 on Terry (p. 37)
• Answer case questions 2 & 3 on Grubbs (p. 37)
• Complete Hypothetical for Student Analysis from Chap 2 (p. 41)
• How could “Jennifer” have been wrong?
• What policy argument supports the defendant in Herring – that is what problems might be created or exacerbated by the court’s ruling?
• With respect to GPS surveillance – much of the decisions here will ultimately be made in the state legislatures. So - if you were in the legislature state the circumstances – if any – that should justify e a public official or law enforcement agent to  attach a gps to a private persons car without a warrant.

 Week 10

March 22          Restorative Justice Principles and Practices – The Uses of RJ

                            Guest Speaker –Robert Bishop Asst Dean of Students MTU

                          Readings

                           What is Restorative Practices  here -restorativepractices-whatis

                           Restorative Justice Power and Authority here

                          Browse this RJ site: http://www.restorativejustice.org/

March 24  

               The Law of Contract

Read  Text - 349-376

• Cooks Pest Control p. 355 (offer)
• Carter v. Matthews p. 360 (consent/acceptance)
• Brown v. King p. 363 (consideration)
• Hanks v. Powder Ridge (p. 367) (Public Policy)
• Carolina Pride v Kendrick (p. 370) (legality)
• Discussion of Sherwood v. Walker (1887) in Michigan Bar Journal “Verdict of History”  Jan 2009 (Cows and Mutual Mistake)
• Kokourek p. 374
• Mulford v. Borg Warner (real property) p. 375

                          Assign Groups for Final Project and Debate Choices

Due Assn 6 TBA