January 1, 2013 (click here to view or download)

• New and Amended Statutes for 2013

January 2013 (click here to view or download)

• 13th Annual Search & Seizure Edition

February 8, 2013 (click here to view or download)

• Detentions and Patdowns
• The “Minimal Intrusion Doctrine”
• Miranda; Readmonishment in Successive Interrogations
• Tape-Recording Interrogations
• Tasers and the Use of Force

March 17, 2013 (click here to view or download)

• Inadvertent Pre-Trial Suspect Identifications
• Warrantless Searches of a Vehicle’s SDM with Probable Cause
• Warrantless Searches of Vehicles as the Instrumentality of the Crime
• Vehicles and Expectation of Privacy
• Residential Warrant Searches; Detentions of Occupants
• Dog Sniffs and Probable Cause

April 12, 2013 (click here to view or download)

• Residential Searches and Drug-Sniffing Dogs Within the Curtilage
• Involuntary Confessions and Offers of Leniency
• Residential Burglary
• Searches of Vehicles; Probable Cause
• Use of Force; Pepperball Projectiles
• Detentions

May 4, 2013 (click here to view or download)

• DUI Arrests and Warrantless Blood Tests
• Homeless Persons and Personal Property
• Vehicle Searches and Probable Cause
• Community Caretaking and Vehicle Impounds
• Patdowns for Weapons
• Use of Force; Tasers

June 14, 2013 (click here to view or download)

• Parole Interrogations and Custody
• Two-Step Interrogation Tactics
• Taking Custody of Seriously Ill Children
• Detention of an Objecting Parent During Medical Treatment of a Child
• Switchblade Knives, per P.C. §17235
• Robbery; Force Used During the Escape

July 8, 2013 (click here to view or download)

• Silence and the Fifth Amendment
• Confessions and Voluntariness
• Eighth Amendment Cruel and Unusual Punishment
• Non-Custodial Interrogations and Beheler
• Texting While Driving, per V.C. §23123.5

August 26, 2013 (click here to view or download)

• Medical Marijuana; Limits on Quantity
• Open Field’s Doctrine
• DUI Refusals
• Fourth Waiver Searches
• Search Warrants and Probable Cause
• Arrests and Probable Cause
• Arrests and Excessive Force
• Conspiracy and an Officer’s Civil Liability

September 30, 2013 (click here to view or download)

• Rape, per P.C. § 261(a)(4)
• Surreptitious Audio-Video Recording in a Suspect’s Home
• Privileged Official Information, per E.C. § 1040
• Miranda; Custody
• Miranda; Offers of Leniency
• Miranda; Coercion/Voluntariness

October 28, 2013 (click here to view or download)

• Border Searches
• Arresting an Out of Control Minor per W&I 601/625
• Vehicle Code Sections 21650 & 21650.1; Bicycles on Sidewalks
• Fourth Waiver Searches; Property of a Third Person
• Miranda; Spanish Language Admonishments

November 13, 2013 (click here to view or download)

• Hot Pursuit; Warrantless Residential Entries
• Accessories, per P.C. § 32
• Requesting Identification & Consensual Encounters
• Cellphone Use While Driving
• GPS; Pinging A Cellphone

November 25, 2013 (click here to view or download)

• Standing: Possession of a Searched Cellphone While Denying Ownership
• Scope of One’s Consent to Search a Cellphone
• Warrantless Container Searches
• Search Warrants; Seizing Evidence Outside the Warrant
• Miranda: Interrogations

December 10, 2013 (click here to view or download)

• Miranda; Spanish Language Admonishments
• Fourth Wavier Searches
• Freedom of Expression and Retaliatory Arrests
• Gangs, and P.C. §186.22(a)
• Dirk or Dagger; The “Upon the Person” Element
• Miranda; Invocation as Impeachment Evidence

December 26, 2013 (click here to view or download)

• Assault Weapons; Manufacturing and Possession
• Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol; Blood-Draws
• Privileged Official Information, per E.C. § 1040(b)
• Aider and Abettor Liability: Continuous Child Abuse, per P.C. § 288.5
• Search Warrants; Stale Information