LEGL 300 - Evidence and Criminal Procedures

3 Credits
This application-based course examines procedural and evidentiary rules and cases relating to admissibility of criminal evidence. Students are introduced to preparing and filing documents involved in criminal litigation from initial client contact through sentencing and appeal.

Prerequisite(s): LEGL 101 or IAAS 256
Course Learning Outcomes:
1. Demonstrate effective interviewing skills.
2. Examine and organize evidence gathered for presentation at all procedural stages of criminal prosecutions.
3. Apply applicable law to research, prepare, file, serve, and respond to documents encountered at all stages of selected criminal proceedings.
4. Describe and summarize the issues that arise in criminal prosecutions under the constitution, statues, and court rules.
5. Identify and prepare, file, serve, and respond to documents encountered during investigations, arrests, charging, arraignments, preliminary examinations, pre-trials, sentencing, and post-trial proceedings.