January 1, 2017 (click here to view or download)

• New and Amended Statutes for 2017​

February 1, 2017 (click here to view or download)

• Robbery and Community Property
• Burglary; Entry of a Room Within a Structure
• Police Dogs and Use of Force
• The Dissipation of Probable Cause or a Reasonable Suspicion
• Protective Sweeps
• Residential Searches and the Exigency Exception to the Search Warrant Requirement

March 8, 2017 (click the following links to view or download)

• Table of Contents
• Search & Seizure 2017

March 24, 2017 (click here to view or download)

• DUI Blood Extractions and Consent
• Disorderly Conduct per P.C. § 647(j)(1)
• Reasonable Expectation of Privacy
  
• V.C. § 2800.2; A Distinctive Uniform
  
• Vehicle Inventory Searches
  
• Vehicle Searches Incident to Arrest
  

April 29, 2017 (click here to view or download)

• Searches of Cellphones
• Searches Incident to Arrest
• Searches Incident to Citation
• Knock and Notice
• Residential Entries Based Upon the Consent of a Cotenant
• Theft by False Pretenses
• The Californians Against Sexual Exploitation Act (CASE Act)
• Juveniles and the CASE Act

May 20, 2017 (click here to view or download)

• Fourth Waiver Searches
• Patdown Searches and Fourth Waivers
• Protective Sweeps
• Search Warrants
• Miranda; The Non-Custodial Interrogation
• Probable of Burglary Tools, per P.C. § 466
• Arson of an Inhabited Structure, per P.C. § 451 
• Criminal, Threats, per P.C. 422
  
• Deterring an Executive Officer, per Penal Code § 69
  

June 20, 2017 (click here to view or download)

• Miranda Invocations
  
• ​Consent Searches of a Residence
  
• Inevitable Discovery
  
• Protective Orders per Family Code §§ 6218 & 6389
• Search Warrants; Redacting Illegally Obtained Information
• Miranda Admonishments
  
• Miranda; Implied Waivers
  
• Miranda; Reinitiation of an Interrogation After an Invocation of the Right to Remain Silent

July 22, 2017 (click here to view or download)

• Use of Force and the “Provocation Rule”
• Thirty Day Impounds of Vehicles per V.C. § 14602.6(a)
• Firearms and W&I Code § 5150 Mental Patients
• V.C. § 31; Providing False Information to a Peace Officer
• P.C. §§ 849.5 and 851.6(b) & (d); Unfiled Arrests being Denoted as Detentions        ​

August 19, 2017 (click here to view or download)

• Searches Incident to a Non-Bookable Offense
  
• V.C. § 22350; the Basic Speed Law
  
• ​P.C. §§ 664/288(a); Attempted Lewd and Lascivious Act on a Child Under
  
• P.C. § 422; Criminal Threats
  
• Use of Force and Police Service Dogs

September 8, 2017 (click here to view or download)

• Use of Deadly Force and Failure to Warn
  
• Civil Liability, Qualified Immunity, and Clearly Established Precedent
  
• Detentions Based Upon Telephone Tipster Information
  
• Arrests; Flight from an Attempted Detention
  
• Searches Incident to Arrest
  
• Searches of Vehicles with Probable Cause
  
• Texting While Driving, Vehicular Manslaughter, and Gross Negligence
  
• P.C. § 632(d); Confidential Communications
  
• P.C. § 633.5, as it relates to the “Vicarious Consent Doctrine”

October 12, 2017 (click here to view or download)

• Carjacking, per P.C. § 215(a); Force
  
• Search Warrants and Material Omissions
  
• Child Pornography
  
• Consensual Encounters vs. Detentions
  
• Patdowns for Weapons

November 3, 2017 (click here to view or download)

• Vehicle Code § 22520.5(a); Soliciting on Freeway Ramps
  
• Miranda; Anticipatory Invocations in a DUI Context
  
• ​Miranda; the Booking Questions Exception
  
• Trespass, per P.C. § 602.1(a)
  
• Prolonged Detentions
  
• Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Doctrine
  
• Coordinated Traffic Stops and the Fourth Amendment

November 21, 2017 (click here to view or download)

• P.C. § 148(a)(1) and Flight from an Attempted Detention
  
• P.C. § 1170(h)(5); Mandatory Supervision Searches
  
• P.C. § 245(c): Assault on a Peace Officer
  
• Pretextual Stops
  
• Administrative Searches
  
• Search Warrants and the Particularity Requirement

December 15, 2017 (click here to view or download)

• The California Public Records Act; Information Contained in Private Electronic Devices
• DUI; Scope of a Consent for the Withdrawal of a Blood Sample
• DUI; Warrantless Blood Draws and Consent
• Cellphones and Fourth Waiver Searches    
• Searches of Containers in Vehicles
• Probation and Parole Searches of Vehicles
• Inevitable Discovery Doctrine