Criminal Procedure: Adjudication

3 units

This course (informally known as "Bail to Jail") provides a detailed introduction to the procedural rules governing the adjudicative phase of the criminal process. It examines prosecutorial charging decisions and how the judicial system handles criminal cases once charges are brought, including the pre-trial, trial, and post-trial stages. The course will largely focus on federal constitutional rules. Topics include prosecutorial discretion, pretrial release, grand juries and preliminary hearings, the right to counsel, discovery, plea bargaining, double jeopardy, the right to confront witnesses, jury trials, sentencing, appellate review, and habeas corpus. Students may take both Criminal Procedure: Investigation and this course. Grades will be based on a final examination and may take class participation, attendance, and professionalism into consideration. Electronic devices will not be permitted. [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 2 hours of BCCCR instruction.] 3 units.