March 25, 2016

POS 282 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LAW
In class today, Friday 3/25, I distributed one handout, a list of Supreme Court opinions about capital punishment. We finished our discussion of Gregg v. Georgia, going over the Stewart, Brennan, and Marshall opinions. We then went through the handout of capital punishment cases, grouping those cases into categories such as procedures to be used, judge/jury division of responsibility, categories of defendant, categories of crimes, and methods of execution. The assignment for Monday 3/28 is to read and prepare to discuss through p.67 in the text (Mobbley and Holland).


POS 484 CRIMINAL DUE PROCESS
In class today, Friday 3/25, I distributed one handout, the 2011 Supreme Court case of Davis v. U.S. We reviewed how the Supreme Court "strangled" (in Brennan's words) the exclusionary rule in Leon, but how that strangulation still had a lot of variations to play out. We went through Hudson, which had the situation of police misconduct (as opposed to magistrate's mistake in Leon). We began our discussion of Herring, which had both police misconduct and causation), and we'll finish up Herring on Monday. Along the way, we also discussed the four mental states of intent, knowledge, recklessness, and carelessness. The assignment for Monday 3/28 is to review Herring, and to read and prepare to discuss the Davis handout. If you weren't in class, you can find Davis here
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?q=davis+v.+U.S.+2011&hl=en&as_sdt=4,60&case=2510124668192463279&scilh=0
or you can email me and I'll send you the edited version that I gave the class today.