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2015 Updates

January 1, 2015 (Click here to view or download)

  • New and Amended Statutes for 2015

January 21, 2015 (Click here to view or download)

  • Miranda; Equivocal Invocations to the Right To Counsel
  • Arrests of “Out of Control” Juveniles on School Campuses
  • Handcuffs; Use of Force on Minors
  • Miranda; Offers of Leniency
  • Residential Entries without Probable Cause or an Exigency
  • Residential Entries under the Emergency Aid Doctrine
  • Firearms and Illegal Arrests
  • Handcuffs and Use of Force

January 2015 (Click here to view or download)

  • 15th Annual Search & Seizure Update

February 25, 2015 (Click here to view or download)

  • Delay in the Search of a Computer
  • Residential Entries; Express vs. Implied Refusals
  • Knock and Talk
  • Warrantless Searches of Cellphones Incident to Arrest
  • Warrantless Searches of Cellphones and Exigent Circumstances
  • Warrantless Searches of Cellphones under the Vehicle Exception
  • Warrantless Searches of Cellphones and Inevitable Discovery
  • Warrantless Searches of Cellphones and Good Faith

April 4, 2015 (Click here to view or download)

  • Searches: Use of a Satellite-Based Monitoring Device
  • Warrantless Blood-Draws in a DUI Case
  • Firearms; Sale to a “Straw Person”
  • Miranda; Unequivocal Invocations and Minors

May 9, 2015 (Click here to view or download)

  • Traffic Stops and a “De Minimis” Extension of the Detention
  • Attempted Criminal Threats, per P.C. §§ 664/422
  • Theft; Aggregating the Loss
  • The CASE Act: Human Trafficking
  • DUI Cases and Warrantless Blood Draws

June 2, 2015 (Click here to view or download)

  • Residential Entries; The Emergency Aid Doctrine
  • Use of Deadly Force
  • The Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Carjacking, per P.C. § 215
  • Execution of Search Warrants and Prolonged Detentions
  • Miranda and Non-Custodial Interrogations

July 5, 2015 (Click here to view or download)

  • Miranda; Booking Questions
  • Hotel/Motel Registration Records; Inspection Thereof
  • Probable Cause to Arrest
  • Failure to Preserve Evidence

August 9, 2015 (Click here to view or download)

  • Kidnapping and Associated Crimes
  • Firearms; Transfer by a Felon
  • Second Degree Implied Malice Murder
  • Mistake of Law
  • Minors and Penal Code § 26 Determinations
  • Miranda; Voluntariness

September 7, 2015 (Click here to view or download)

  • Brady and Pitchess Discovery
  • Sixth Amendment Right to Confrontation
  • Assault with a Deadly Weapon, per P.C. § 245(a)(1)
  • Sexual Exploitation of a Mentally Disabled Victim
  • Burglary and Consensual Entries

October 7, 2015 (Click here to view or download)

  • Speedy Trial Rights; Pre-Accusation Delay
  • Search Warrants; Motions to Quash
  • Search Warrants; Motions to Traverse
  • Non-Custodial Interrogations and the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act
  • Miranda; The Non-Custodial Interrogation
  • Resisting Arrest, per P.C. § 148(a)(1)
  • Arrests; Use of Excessive force

October 21, 2015 (Click here to view or download)

  • Threatening a Victim or Witness, per P.C. § 140(a)
  • Detentions and Reasonable Suspicion
  • Searches Incident to Arrest
  • Stalking, per P.C. § 646.9(a)
  • DUI Arrests and Consensual Blood Draws

November 12, 2015 (Click here to view or download)

  • Brady Violations
  • Identification Evidence
  • Third Party Culpability Evidence
  • DUI Chemical Test Refusals and P.C. § 148(a)(1)
  • Consensual Encounters, Detentions, and Requesting Identification

December 1, 2015 (Click here to view or download)

  • Miranda; Invocation of the Right to Counsel and a Break in Custody
  • Businesses; Investigations in Areas Open to the Public
  • Miranda; Questioning Outside of Miranda for Impeachment Purposes
  • V.C. § 22450(a) and Stopping at Intersections
  • Escape by Force or Violence, per P.C. § 4532(b)(2)
  • Defense of Necessity

December 27, 2015 (Click here to view or download)

  • Probation Fourth Waiver Searches
  • Detentions of PRCS Probationers
  • Search Warrants for Computerized Data
  • First Degree Murder
  • Miranda; Ambiguous Attempts to Invoke
  • Miranda and Booking Questions
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