Integrated Criminal Practice

This course serves as a capstone course to the Criminal Law Honors Program required curriculum. Students will apply the lessons taught in criminal law, criminal procedure, advanced criminal procedure, and evidence in the context of a case problem. For the first half of this course students will engage in pretrial litigation through which they will be required to draft motions and responses relating to issues in the case and conduct hearings on the motions. For the second half of the course, students will be taught trial skills as they prepare and try the case. This course will satisfy the upper division writing requirement. In addition to drafting and arguing pretrial motions, students may be required to draft jury instructions and/or trial briefs.

Course Number: D-467

Credits: 6