First Readings for Fall 2024

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Dates for Fall 2024

•  The form for submitting assignments will be activated on Thursday, August 1, 2024.
  • Assignments will begin to be posted Thursday, August 1, 2024.
• The form for submitting assignments will be deactivated on Wednesday, September 11, 2024.
  • Assignments will be removed on Wednesday, September 11, 2024.

Criminal Procedure (LAWS 547 §001)

Instructor Name(s)

Crocker

General Assignment Information

Please note the reading for day 3 below. You should have read all of the novel by Franz Kafka, The Trial by Tuesday, August 27. So, perhaps you can roll this into your end of summer reading so that you can knock out a classic novel and do your course reading at the same time!!

Day 1: Introduction: U.S. Constitution Amendments IV, V, VI and XIV.
Please read the casebook materials from pp. 3-10 (intro and Packer), 12-23, 25-26, 35-36.

Day 2: Please read–all of these are on the Course Blackboard site. Charles Reich, Police Questioning of Law Abiding Citizens, 75 Yale L. J. 1161 (1966); Bernard Harcourt, Unconstitutional Police Searches and Collective Responsibility, 3 Criminology & Public Policy 363 (2004). (Both on BB). Tragic Choices, excerpt (BB). Wilson, Broken Windows (BB).
Introduce Due Process: Brown v. Mississippi, 297 U.S. 278 (1936) (BB).

Day 3–Tuesday, August 27. Please have read Franz Kafka, The Trial. Also, please read Due Process: CaseBook 55-71; Moore v. Dempsey, 261 U.S. 86 (1923) (BB-majority). Duck Hill (NY Times – PDF BB), South Carolina Trial (NY Times –PDF BB).