Course Information

641 - Criminal Procedure: Adjudication

Professor: Joshua Dressler
Credits: 3
Semester: 2008 Autumn
Second Writing? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No

This course studies the process of the criminal justice system from after the time of arrest through trial and verdict. Topics covered will include the right to counsel, the charging process, pretrial detention, discovery, pleas,  trials, and double jeopardy. Trial issues include many subtopics, such as the right to a speedy trial, jury selection, and the right to effective assistance of counsel. This course is entirely separate from Criminal Procedure: Investigation and from Criminal Punishment and Sentencing, and can be taken with or without those courses.

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