From the Incident through the System Legally
Course Text: Available Online

California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Latest update: January 16, 1999
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Introduction

Knowledge Base of Legal Concepts

• Citizen's Arrest
• Color of Law
• The "Ducks" Argument
• Detention vs. Arrest
• The Erie Doctrine
• Evidentiary vs. Constitutional Law Issue
• The Exclusionary Rule
• Federal General Common Law
• Felony vs. Misdemeanor
• Government Action - Acting in Concert
• Harmless vs. Prejudicial Error
• Doctrine of Inevitable Discovery
• Judicial Remedy
• Merchant's Privilege
• Permissible Scope of Search
• Plain View Doctrine
• Private Remedy in Tort
• Probable Cause
• Search and Seizure: Definitions and Standards
• Security Guard as Private Citizen
• The Silver Platter Doctrine or Standing Idly By
• Standards on Review
• State vs. Federal Issue
• Sufficiency of the Evidence
• Totality of the Circumstances

Advocacy and Policy Arguments and Argument StrategiesTo be up soon. jeanne