General Course Descriptions for Terms: criminal procedure
725 - Introduction to Criminal Procedure
This course is designed to help you understand the key legal decision points in a criminal case, from the commission of a crime through the imposition of sentence, as well as the context in which these decisions are made. The discussion problems in each chapter and the class assignments are intended to help you develop a range of fundamental lawyering skills, including the ability to begin exercising legal discretion—a difficult skill, even for practiced attorneys. By the end of this course, you should be able to: • Identify the steps in a criminal prosecution, both prior to and following the commencement of a formal criminal action. • Recite the basic governing principles that guide police in searches, seizures, and interrogations, and that govern the disclosure of discovery documents by prosecutors. • Possess a basic understanding of the criminal and civil ramifications of criminal conviction. • Understand the role of the lawyer at each stage of a case, from pre-charge interrogation through sentencing. • Identify and know how to utilize multiple sources of legal guidance relevant to criminal cases, including Constitutional principles, administrative rules, ABA Standards, ethics rules, and local rules and policies. • Define and understand what discretion means and how it is exercised throughout the adjudication of a criminal case.
854 - Clinical Program: Oxford Federal Project
Throughout the course of the clinic and seminar, students will: 1. Develop proficiency in investigation, issue spotting, legal research and written work, including legal documents and client correspondence. 2. Learn to collaborate with clients, other students, and other criminal justice system actors. 3. Develop an ability to identify ethical issues in everyday practice, and respond to such issues according to the rules of professional conduct and consistent with norms or professionalism. 4. Learn federal criminal procedure and sentencing, including appellate and postconviction procedure.
860 - Adv. Criminal Procedure: Rep. Criminal Appellant
Advanced Criminal Procedure (class component) and the Criminal Appeals Project (CAP) (clinic component) will teach you how to represent a client in a direct appeal of a Wisconsin criminal conviction from beginning to end. Our classes will track the appeals process: our fall semester will focus on issue-spotting and postconviction litigation and our spring semester will focus on appellate brief-writing and oral argument.
915 - SP Crim. J. Admin: Criminal Injustice in America
Examine structural injustices that drive criminal system outcomes. Consider how the legal system is a critical site for maintaining a racially discriminatory order. Explore the criminal system’s racially disproportionate impact at all intercept points (surveillance, arrest, charging, pretrial detention, and sentencing). Question how criminal due process rights and civil law doctrine has been used to legitimize and reinforce the exercise of state power. Pass-fail only grading; 20-page paper will be due at the end of the term; meets Upper-level Writing requirement. Criminal Procedure (Law 925) required.