This course will discuss the laws of arrest, search and seizure, the exclusionary rule, rules of evidence, jury trials, and sentencing. As time permits, California’s Three-Strikes law, the death penalty, and the insanity defense will also be discussed. The legal principles will be illustrated by using real criminal cases from Santa Barbara, in PowerPoint presentations. Because of the sensitive nature of these depictions of actual crimes, no cell phone photos will be permitted during the showing of crime scenes. The course will track the outline and material presented during Mr. McKinley’s earlier VISTAS course, but with some additional criminal cases added.

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