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