CJ 305 - Criminal Evidence and Procedure

This course is designed to introduce students to issues and processes associated with safeguarding personal liberties of criminal suspects during the investigatory and arrest stages of criminal procedure, including procedure for search and seizure, arrest, application of force, interrogation and confession, pretrial identification, and the exclusionary rule. Also, the course will focus on evidence concepts including, but not limited to, witness competency and impeachment, hearsay, admissions and confessions, circumstantial evidence, documentary and physical evidence, and the implications of the exclusionary rule in law and the courts.

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