January 1, 2012 (click here to view or download)
- New and Amended Statutes for 2012
January 2012 (click here to view or download)
- 12th Annual Search & Seizure Update
January 2012 (click here to view or download)
- Sixth Amendment Right to an Attorney and to Confrontation
February 27, 2012 (click here to view or download)
- Use of a Global Positioning System (GPS) Device and the Fourth Amendment
- Use of Force; Tasers and Qualified Immunity
- Miranda; A Minor’s Request for a Parent
- Residential Entries
March 24, 2012 (click here to view or download)
- Miranda; Interrogation of a Prison Inmate
- Search Warrants and Qualified Immunity
- Miranda; Voluntariness
- Use of Force; Beanbag Shotguns
April 19, 2012 (click here to view or download)
- Miranda; Reinitiation of Questioning after an Invocation
- The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
- Vehicle Searches; Warrantless Searches of its Contents
- Probation Fourth Waiver Searches
- V.C. § 23123; Cell Phone Use While Driving
- Expectation of Privacy and the Doctrine of Abandonment
May 24, 2012 (click here to view or download)
- Jail Strip Searches
- Miranda; The Use of a Defendant’s Silence as an Adoptive Admission
- The Stolen Valor Act: The Unauthorized Wearing of Military Medals
- Search Warrant Affidavits, Informants, & Probable Cause
June 29, 2012 (click here to view or download)
- Consent Searches
- Burglary by Use of an Acetylene Torch (P.C. § 464)
- Probation Searches and the Standard of Proof
- Undercover Police Agents and the Fifth and Sixth Amendments
- Miranda; DUI Drivers and Custody
August 9, 2012 (click here to view or download)
- The Odor of Marijuana and Residential Entries
- Miranda; Invocation in a Non-Custodial Interview
- Interrogation Tactics
- Miranda; The Two-Step Interrogation Technique
- Residential Searches; Consent, Exigent Circumstances, and Plain View
- Doctrine of Inevitable Discovery
- Vehicle Searches Incident to Arrest
- Vehicle Searches with Probable Cause
- Inevitable Discovery
September 15, 2012 (click here to view or download)
- Burglary; the Entry Element
- Residences, the Curtilage, and “Knock and Talks”
- Suspect’s Admissions and Probable Cause to Search
- Hotel Guest Registers and Privacy Rights
- Miranda; Reinitiation after Invocation
- Tape-Recording Suspect Interviews
- Search Warrants; Property Description
October 2, 2012 (click here to view or download)
- Traffic Stops and Prolonged Detentions
- Traffic Stops and the Need for a Miranda Admonishment
- Consent to Search
- Miranda; Reinitiation of Questioning
- Offers of Leniency
- Miranda; An Unequivocal Request for Counsel
- Miranda; A Moment of Silence as an Invocation
- Defendant’s Statements; Voluntariness and Coercion
- Miranda; Seeking Clarification of an Equivocal Invocation
- Miranda; Equivocal Attempts to Invoke
November 2, 2012 (click here to view or download)
- Burglary Tools, per P.C. §466
- Flight and Detentions
- Delaying Medical Treatment as a Constitutional Violation
- Detentions of Witnesses
- Use of Force on Witnesses
- Residential Burglary and the Entry of an Internal Room
- Consent to Search; Groin Searches
November 30, 2012 (click here to view or download)
- Miranda; The Interrogation Element
- Massiah; Use of an Informant after Appointment of Counsel
- Expectation of Privacy in a Campsite
- Threatening or Deterring an Executive Officer, per P.C. §69
- Protective Sweeps
December 26, 2012 (click here to view or download)
- Curtilage to a Residence
- Warrantless Residential Entries
- Invocation of the Right to Silence and Reinitiation of the Interrogation
- Residential Burglary; Apartment Balconies
- Consensual Residential Entries
- Parole Searches of Vehicles