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