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