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2014 Updates

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
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