April 12, 2018

POS 282 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LAW
In class today, Thursday 4/12, I distributed one handout, my version of the Corbin case brief. I collected the case briefs from the class, and plan to return them on Tuesday. After going over the Corbin case brief, we went back into the textbook. We finished our discussion of Butler. I went over the Miranda case, and then the case of Harris v. N.Y., which basically took the same position as the Ohio Supreme Court had taken in Butler. I went through the votes in Miranda and Harris, which showed that the different results in those two cases was not due to any of the Justices really thinking that there should be different results for unMirandized statements in the case-in-chief v. for purposes of impeachment. I also went over three examples of different types of dictum from three case we have studied so far, Butler, NFIB, and Mobbley.
The assignment for Tuesday 4/17 is to read in the text through p. 113, including Dempsey and Strunk.


POS 484 CRIMINAL DUE PROCESS
In class today, Thursday 4/12, we first went over the 4 questions of assignment #2, trying to get to the point of each question. (I reminded the class that the non-collaboration rule includes not sharing class notes or discussion with anyone who was not in class today). Then we started dissecting the first issue in Ormsby, whether he was in custody before the break. We went through the 10 custody factors,and saw how many of them pointed to custody, even though the Court concluded that Ormsby was not in custody. We will pick up with the remainder of the Ormsby issues, and with Bridges and Nightingale, on Tuesday.
The assignment for Tuesday 4/17 is to work on Assignment #2 (due at the beginning of class Thursday, 4/19) and to review Ormsby, Bridges and Nightingale.