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2016 Updates

January 1, 2016 (click here to view or download)

  • New and Amended Statutes for 2016
  • Table of Contents

January 21, 2016 (click here to view or download)

  • P.C. § 148(a)(1) and Exhorting Others Not to Cooperate with Police
  • P.C. § 148(a)(1) and Refusing to Cooperate with Police
  • P.C. § 148(a)(1) and a Detainee Refusing to Identify Himself
  • Search Warrants; Staleness and Breadth
  • Disorderly Conduct, per P.C. 647(j)(2); An Identifiable Person
  • Permitting a Loaded Firearm In a Vehicle; per P.C. § 26100(a)

January 2016 (click here to view or download)

  • 2016 Search & Seizure Update

February 23, 2016 (click here to view or download)

  • Miranda and Implied Waivers
  • Confessions and Coerced Statements
  • Offers of Leniency
  • Miranda; Ambiguous Attempts at an Invocation
  • Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel
  • Criminal Street Gang Allegations, per P.C. 186.22(b)
  • Interrogation Techniques and Minors

March 31, 2016 (click here to view or download)

  • Knock and Talks
  • Protective Sweeps
  • Inevitable Discovery
  • Street Terrorism, per P.C. § 186.22(a)
  • Juvenile Probation Conditions and Electronic Social Media
  • Criminal Street Gang Allegations, per P.C. 186.22(b)
  • Miranda and the Two-Step Interrogation Technique

April 24, 2016 (click here to view or download)


  • Fourth Waiver Cellphone Searches
  • Good Faith Cellphone Searches
  • Miranda; Invocation of Right to Remain Silent
  • Interrogations; Coercion
  • Blood Draws from an Unconscious DUI Suspect
  • Implied Consent, per V.C. § 23612(a)(5)
  • Good Faith Reliance Upon a Statute
  • Loitering Near School Grounds, per P.C. § 654b 


May 2016 (click here to view or download)

  • The Fifth Amendment and Miranda

May 26, 2016 (click here to view or download)

  • Firearms; Carrying in a Backpack on the Person
  • Miranda: Unequivocal Invocation of the Right to Remain Silent 
  • Miranda: Unequivocal Invocation of the Right to Counsel 
  • A Claim-Of-Right Self-Help Defense Under CALCRIM No. 1863 
  • Prolonged Traffic Stops 

June 24, 2016 (click here to view or download)

  • Prolonged Detentions
  • ​Detentions and Reasonable Suspicion
  • Detentions and the Use of Handcuffs
  • Infraction Offenses and Custodial Arrests
  • Reverse Sting Operations and Outrageous Governmental Misconduct 
  • Entrapment
  • Residential Burglary
  • Commercial Burglary
  • Forgery and the Intent to Defraud

July 24, 2016 (click here to view or download)

  • Arrest Warrants
  • Fruit of the Poisonous Tree; Attenuation of the Taint
  • DUI Arrests and Blood or Breath Tests
  • Searches with Exigent Circumstances
  • Searches Incident to Arrest
  • Implied Consent and DUI Arrests
  • Officer Safety
  • Detentions Without Reasonable Suspicion
  • Gang Prosecutions
  • Gang-Related Expert Opinions

August 24, 2016 (click here to view or download)

  • Probation Fourth Waiver Searches
  • Search Warrants to Eliminate Suspects
  • Buccal Swab Evidence
  • The Posse Comitatus Act
  • Estimations of Speed as Reasonable Suspicion for a Traffic Stop
  • Residential Burglaries and Recreational Vehicles

September 23, 2016 (click here to view or download)

  • Use of Force and High Speed Chases
  • Search Warrants: Material Omissions
  • Search Warrants: Stale Information
  • Search Warrants: A Franks Motion to Traverse
  • Battery, per P.C. §§ 242 & 243.6
  • Battery, per P.C. §§ 242 & 243(e)(1); Indirect Touching
  • Confessions; Offers of Leniency
  • Cooperation Agreements
  • Robbery/Murder Special Circumstances
  • Use of Recalcitrant Witnesses, Hearsay, and the Sixth Amendment

October 24, 2016 (click here to view or download)

  • Dirk or Dagger, per P.C. §§ 21310 & 16470
  • Assault on a Peace Officer with Force Likely to Produce Great Bodily Injury; per P.C. § 245(c)
  • Drunk in Public and Civil Commitments, per P.C. § 647(g) Residential Burglaries and Circumstantial Evidence
  • Attempted Burglaries
  • Attempts, per P.C. § 654
  • Gang Enhancements, per P.C. § 186.22(b)(1)
  • Evading a Peace Officer per V.C. § 2800(a) 

November 14, 2016 (click here to view or download)

  • Confessions and Offers of Leniency
  • Postrelease Community Supervision and Fourth Amendment Waivers pursuant to P.C. 3456(a)
  • P.C. § 148(a)(1) and a Defendant’s Refusal to Cooperate
  • Miranda; Unequivocal Invocations to Remain Silent
  • Coercive Interrogations
  • Curbstone and Photographic Lineup Procedures

December 5, 2016 (click here to view or download)

  • Vehicle Impoundments and the Community Caretaking Doctrine
  • Vehicle Inventory Searches
  • Search Warrants and Motions to Traverse
  • Standing, and Searches of Vehicles
  • Searches of Vehicles not Listed in a Search Warrant
  • Detentions and Reasonable Suspicion
  • Consensual Encounters and Detentions
  • Vehicles Searches; Searches for Identification and Vehicle Documentation
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