Spring 2025
Professor(s):
David Kwok (FACULTY)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Criminal Law
Time: 2:30p-4:00p MW Location: 102A
Course Outline: This constitutional law course involves the police investigation of criminal activities. Topics include the rules governing search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment, confessions under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, the role of the due process clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments with respect to the foregoing, and the remedy of exclusion for constitutional violations.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus updated 1/13/2025
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Prerequisites:
First Day Assignments:
Final Exam Schedule: 4/30/2025 2-5pm
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: Critical (MBE & MEE)
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Available
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: Marc L. Miller, et. al., Criminal Procedures: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials (6th ed.), ISBN 9781454897941
Caution: Miller, et. al. have other books with similar titles that only cover a portion of the above assigned book. Such incomplete materials include ISBN numbers 9781454897958, 9781543812459, 9781454897965, and 9781543812626.
