Criminal Procedure May 27, 2005
Posted by atharkhan in : Law School , trackbackMy first class on Crim Pro was last night. Wow! The professor is so insanely good that I could feel my brain getting stretched like a rubber band… the information was just flooding in! I felt like Neo when he said “I Know Kung Fu!!” in The Matrix.
In the first class we learned about the Necker Cube and how the same thing (analogy for argument) can look different from different angles (different points of view).
We went over the composition of the Supreme Court. Currently, the composition is Liberal (Stevens, Breyer, Ginsberg) Moderate (O’Connor, Kennedy, Sutter) and Conservative (Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas)
We went over Wolf v. Colorado and Mapp v. Ohio. It was pretty cool to learn how the 4th, 5th and 6th Amendments were made applicable to the states through the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.
You guessed it! We were talking about the controversial Exclusionary Rule by which any evidence obtained through an illegal search and seizure is excluded from the trial. I wont spoil it for you by getting into it here but I will tell you this much… this will be a discussion to remember :-)
Now, I need to go work on my reading for next week. Bye for now :-)
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