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2018 Updates

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
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