January 1, 2014 (click here to view or download)

• New and Amended Statutes for 2014

January 10, 2014 (click here to view or download)

• Jailhouse Informants
• Witnesses; Coercive Questioning Tactics
• Unlawful Use of Personal Identification Information, per P.C. § 530.5(a)
• Threatened Illegal Arrests and Discarded Evidence
• Probation Violations and P.C. § 1203.2(a)

January 2014 (click here to view or download)

• 14th Annual Search & Seizure Edition

March 9, 2014 (click here to view or download)

• Consensual Residential Entries and the Objecting Absent Cotenant
• Cell Phones and Driving, per V.C. § 23123(a)
• Miranda; Offers of Leniency
• Miranda; Advisement of Rights and Attempts to Invoke
• Hotel/Motel Guest Registers

March 31, 2014 (click here to view or download)

• Informants
• Theft by False Pretenses and Robbery
• Medical Marijuana and Expert Testimony
• Miranda; Non-Custodial Questioning
• Border Patrol Roving Patrol Stops and Reasonable Suspicion

May 2, 2014 (click here to view or download)

• Detentions and Reasonable Suspicion
• Illegal Detentions and Subsequent Fourth Waiver Searches
• The Use of Firearms, Handcuffs, and De Facto Arrests
• Anonymous Information and Detentions
• Involuntary Statements
• Miranda; Booking Questions
• Massiah; Questioning Related to a Prisoner’s Safety
• Residential Parole Searches

May 23, 2014 (click here to view or download)

• Anonymous Tips and Reasonable Suspicion
• Search Warrants for Electronic Data
• Search Warrants and Staleness
• Search Warrants Protocols and Electronic Data
• Tasers and the Use of Force 
• Firearms and the Use of Force
• Miranda; Equivocal Invocations
• Miranda; Reinitiation of an Interrogation
• Miranda; Voluntariness

June 29, 2014 (click here to view or download)

• Searches of Cellphones Incident to Arrest
• High Speed Chases and the Use of Deadly Force
• Consensual Residential Entries and Apparent Authority
• Warrantless Blood Draws and Implied Consent
• Billy Clubs, per P.C. §12020(a)

July 29, 2014 (click here to view or download)

• Use of Deadly Force
• Agents of Law Enforcement
• Warrantless Searches and Bodily Intrusions
• First Amendment Freedom of Speech
• Search Warrants and Child Pornography
• Good Faith

August 28, 2014 (click here to view or download)

• Post-Arrest Silence as an Invocation of Rights
• Failure to Signal, per V.C. §§ 22107 & 22108
• Miranda; Ambiguous Attempts to Invoke
• Provocative Act First Degree Murder
• Odor of Marijuana and Vehicle Searches
• Medical Marijuana and Vehicle Searches

September 12, 2014 (click here to view or download)

• Miranda; Custody, and Interrogation of Minors
• Special Needs School Searches
• Fighting, per P.C. §§ 415(1) and/or 415.5(a)(1), on School Campuses
• Consensual Encounters and Detentions within the Curtilage of a Home
• Detentions in a Residence by Ordering a Suspect to Come Out

October 10, 2014 (click here to view or download)

• Arrests and Probable Cause
• Hot Pursuit Misdemeanor Arrests in a Residence
• Overbroad Search Warrants
• Body Cavity Searches
• Warrantless Securing of a Residence
• Pretextual Traffic Stops
• Warrantless Vehicle Searches Based Upon Probable Cause
• Failure to Preserve Potentially Exculpatory Evidence
• Automated License Plate Readers and Traffic Stops
• Detentions and De Facto Arrests
• Use of Force

October 27, 2014 (click here to view or download)

• Penal Code §69; Resisting an Executive Officer
• Miranda; Invocation and Reinitiation
• Due Process and the Pretrial Failure to Disclose Exculpatory Evidence
• Search Warrants; Material Omissions in the Affidavit

Nov 11, 2014 (click here to view or download)

• Dissuading Witnesses, per P.C. § 136.1
• Miranda and Volunteered Statements
• The CASE Act: Human Trafficking and Solicitation of Prostitution
• Criminal Threats, per P.C. § 422(a)
• Trespass, per P.C. § 602(m)
• Vandalism, per P.C. § 594(a)

November 30, 2014 (click here to view or download)

• The Second Amendment and the Right to Bear Arms
• Use of Deadly Force and an Officer’s Duty to Use Reasonable Care
• Use of Force; Civil Liability and an Officer’s Pre-Shooting Conduct
• Sex Registrations per P.C. § 290(b)
• Searches of Computers; Going Beyond the Scope of a Private Search
• Intrusive Detentions vs. Arrests
• Detentions and Anonymous Information