November 25, 2014

POS 282 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LAW
In class today, Tuesday 11/25, I handed back the Brown case briefs, as well as the Comment Key. We then finished our far-ranging discussion of NFIB v. Sebelius. We will start with dictum and the Butler case (previously assigned) next Tuesday. The additional assignment for Tuesday 12/2 is to read through p. 110 of the text (Dempsey). Have a good and safe Thanksgiving.


POS 484 CRIMINAL DUE PROCESS
In class today, Tuesday 11/25, we went over the Ormsby opinion. We discussed the technique of using non-custodial interrogations in order to accomplish some of what the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed in terms of non-Mirandized statements in Seibert. I also went over two other cases, the U.S. Supreme Court case of Maryland v. Shatzer (2010) and the Maine Supreme Court case of State v. Prescott (2012). These cases complete our study of Chapter 11 of the text. The assignment for Tuesday 12/2 is to read in Chapter 12 of the text through p. 551 (Powell v. Alabama and Gideon v. Wainwright). Have a good and safe Thanksgiving.