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