January 1, 2018 (click here to view or download)

• New and Amended Statutes for 2018

January 19, 2018 (click here to view or download)

• Miranda and Custodial Interrogations
• The Beheler Admonishment
• Ident-A-Drug Website; Admissibility in Evidence
• Ident-A-Drug Website; Hearsay and Confrontation Issues
• Controlled Substances; Proof by Circumstantial Evidence
• Miranda; Waiver of Rights and Implied Waivers
• Juveniles and Interrogations
• Interrogation Tactics; Offers of Leniency
• Interrogation Tactics; Use of Deceptions

February 11, 2018 (click here to view or download)

• Arrests and Probable Cause
  
• Qualified Immunity and Clearly Established Precedent
  
• Miranda; Waiver of Rights
  
• Confessions and the Issue of Voluntariness
  
• Miranda; Honoring a Suspect’s Invocation of his Right to Counsel
  
• Miranda; Waiver of a Suspect’s Right to Counsel Upon his Attempted Reinitiation of an Interrogation

The Fourth Amendment and Search & Seizure (click here to view or download)

March 20, 2018 (click here to view or download)

• Fourth Amendment Seizures of a Child
  
• Fourteenth Amendment Deprivation of a Family Relationship
  
• A Government Entity’s Civil Liability for Failure to Train
  
• Threats of the Death Penalty and Offers of Leniency
  
• Youth and Length of an Interrogation as Related to Voluntariness of a Confession
  
• Dissuading Witnesses

​April 10, 2018 (click here to view or download)

• Conflicts of Interest When the Parent of a Questioned Suspect is also the Parent of the Victim
  
• Miranda and Custodial Interrogations
  
• Beheler Admonishments and Interrogations
  
• Interrogating Juvenile Suspects
  
• Billy Clubs                

May 15, 2018 (click here to view or download)

• Use of Deadly Force
  
• Qualified Immunity
  
• Warrantless Residential Searches; Emergency Aid Exception
  
• Detentions of Visitors During a Fourth Waiver Search
  
• Prolonged Detentions
  
• Search Warrants; the Particularity Requirement
  
• Good Faith
  
• Vehicle Inventory Searches
  
• Inevitable Discovery

June 9, 2018 (click here to view or download)

• Animal Abuse and Exigent Circumstances
  
• Warrantless Searches Within the Curtilage of a Home
  
• Search Warrants; Excising Illegal Observations
  
• Search Warrants; Staleness
  
• Miranda; Offers of Leniency
  
• Arrests; Mistaken Identity
  
• Detentions During Execution of an Arrest Warrant
  
• Excessive Force and Qualified Immunity
  
• Search of the Person as a Product of an Illegal Arrest
  
• Search of a Residence for an Absconding Parolee
  
• Retaliatory Police Conduct as a First Amendment Violation

June 29, 2018 (click here to view or download)

• The Curtilage of a Home
  
• Warrantless Searches of Vehicles
  
• Searches of Rented Vehicles; Standing
  
• Consent Searches
  
• Parole Searches
  
• Searches of Cellphones
  
• Hearsay Testimony Offered to Rebut Third Party Culpability Evidence
  
• Fourth Waiver Searches
  
• Warrantless Searches of Residences Over a Resident’s Objection

July 29, 2018 (click here to view or download)

• Search Warrants
  
• Federal Law Enforcement and State Search Warrants
  
• Arrests and Probable Cause
  
• Anonymous Informants and Probable Cause
  
• Miranda; Admonishments and Successive Interrogations
  
• Griffin Error; Comments on a Defendant’s Failure to Testify
  
• Miranda; the Beheler Admonishment
  
• Miranda; Custodial Interrogations

September 2, 2018 (click here to view or download)

• Burglary of a Room within a Residence
  
• Detentions of Students
  
• Searches of Students
  
• School Resource Officers
  
• Anonymous Informants
  
• Searches of Vehicles; Inventory Search
  
• Searches of Vehicles with Probable Cause
  
• Searches of Hidden Compartments Within a Vehicle
  
• Massiah Error
  
• Sixth Amendment Right to Confrontation
  
• Jail House Informants
  
• Statements Against Penal Interest, per E.C. § 1230
  
• Exception to the Aranda/Bruton Rule

September 28, 2018 (click here to view or download)

• Patdowns for Weapons
  
• Odor or Marijuana in a Vehicle
  
• Probable Cause Searches of Vehicles
  
• Second Degree DUI Implied Malice Murder
  
• Involuntary and/or Vehicular Manslaughter as Lesser Included or Lesser Related Offenses
  
• Voluntary Intoxication in Implied Malice Murders
  
• Warrantless Entry of a Residence
  
• Tasers and the Use of Force
  
• Firearms and the Use of Force
  
• Qualified Immunity from Civil Liability        

October 25, 2018 (click here to view or download)

• Miranda; Invocation of the Right to Counsel
  
• Routine Booking Questions
  
• Reinitiation of an Interrogation
  
• The Functional Equivalent of an Interrogation
  
• Vehicle Searches Incident to Arrest
  
• Vehicle Searches with Probable Cause
  
• Warrantless Residential Entries
  
• Proximate Cause and Civil Liability
  
• Negligence in Making Warrantless Entries of a Residence and Civil Liability
  
• Knock and Announce (or Notice) Violations

November 26, 2018 (click here to view or download)

• The Use of Force and Qualified Immunity
  
• The Bane Act; Cal. Civil Code § 52.1
  
• Heck v. Humphrey; Legal Effects of a Parallel Criminal Conviction
  
• The Fourth Amendment Seizure of Personal Property
  
• Fourteenth Amendment Due Process; Pre-Seizure Hearings and P.C. § 597.1(a)(1)
  
• Gov’t. Code § 820.2 Immunity from State Tort Civil Liability
  
• Vehicle Inventory Searches; the Rules
  
• Vehicle Inventory Searches; The Officer’s Subjective Intent
  
• Arrests and Probable Cause
  
• Prolonged Detentions
  
• Miranda; Custody
  
• Missouri v. Seibert and Voluntariness

December 20, 2018 (click here to view or download)

• DUI Cases and Warrantless Blood Draws
• Disrupting a Government Meeting
• Civil Liability and Retaliatory Arrests
• High Speed Chases; Use of Force
• PIT Maneuvers and Immunity from Civil Liability
• Written Pursuit Policies; Necessary Training and Certifications
• Detentions        
• Patdowns
• Inevitable Discovery and Equitable Estoppel
• Fourth Waiver Search and Seizure Conditions