Criminal Law & Procedure

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the Constitutional basis for lawful interrogations and confessions including the impact of due process and voluntariness.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to define criminal procedure including its Constitutional basis, purpose, and the criminal process.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the Fourth Amendment including the concepts of probable cause, reasonable suspicion, and administrative justification.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the role, functions, qualifications, and ethical considerations of judges in the federal and state court systems.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the purpose, organization, processes, and related procedures of the juvenile court systems in the US.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to summarize the plea-bargaining and guilty plea process and its use in criminal procedure.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the purpose and process in each step of the pretrial process.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain criminal, civil, and nonjudicial remedies for Constitutional rights violations.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the rights of the defendants during trial.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the components and processes of search and arrest with warrants including situations in which special circumstances are indicated.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the issues involved in warrantless search and seizures including the search incident to arrest doctrine, the concept of hot pursuit, special issues involved in automobile searches, and the plain view doctrine.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the purpose and options for sentencing.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to identify the various types of social or morality-based crimes, their essential elements, related issues and the laws that govern behavior.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the principles, practices, types, and related issues of specialized courts in the US.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the various structures of, extent of workload of, and administration of the state court systems in the US.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the Constitutional right to a trial by jury and the process of that trial and its component parts.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the role of the jury and the jury selection and decision-making processes.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the roles, allowed discretion, and potential issues related to prosecutors, describe the types, protections, rules of conduct and ethical considerations, organization and administration, and related issues of prosecutors in the US court systems.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to discuss terrorism, treason, and wartime criminal justice.