December 10, 2019

POS 282 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LAW
In class today, Tuesday 12/10, I distributed 3 handouts: the Maine Supreme Cort opinion in Landmark Realty v. Leasure, the U.S. Supreme Court case of Bowles v. Russell, and Maine and federal recognition statutes.
I reminded the class to please fill out the online evaluations. I also reminded the class that Exam #2 will be on Tuesday 12/17 from 9:30-10:45.
We first went over Finstuen v. Crutcher, covering both the requirements of Full Faith and Credit for recognition of the adoption judgment, and then the rules regarding enforcement of the judgment. We then discussed the Obergefell excerpt, going over the constitutional basis for forced recognition of marriage. We discussed VL v. EL, which dealt with both Full Faith and Credit, and subject-matter jurisdiction. We began our look at the Maine and federal statutes by looking at the Maine adoption statute, and will pick up on Thursday by looking at the other statutes, especially the federal statute.
The assignment for Thursday 12/12 is to read all 3 of today's handouts.



POS 484 CRIMINAL DUE PROCESS
In class today, Tuesday 12/10, I distributed 1 handout: the U.S. Supreme Court case of Montejo v. Louisiana.
I reminded the class to please fill out the online evaluations. I also reminded the class that Exam #2 will be on Thursday 12/19 from 9:30-10:45.
We first looked at the text of the 6th Amendment and its list of protections fro the criminal defendant. We then focused on the last of those protections, the right to counsel. I went over the Due Process protections in Powell v. Alabama, and then the rejection of incorporation in Betts. We talked about how Gideon v. Wainwright overruled Betts (though I still want to discuss on Thursday the question of to which criminal prosecutions the right to counsel attaches (is it capital cases, felonies, all crimes that have the potential penalty of imprisonment?). We looked at the progression from Jackson to Montejo (waiver), and from Henry to Kuhlmann (informants). We compared the resultin Rhode v. Innis to that in Brewer v. Williams. Then we went through the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendment issues in Dominique.
The assignment for Thursday 12/12 is to review Gideon v. Wainwright, and to read today's handout.