POS.2010 Courts, Criminal Trials, and Evidence
How are federal and state courts structured to hear criminal trials and appeals in the United States? How does a case get to trial and what proof of guilt can be heard by a jury at trial? How do the pretrial and trial processes of civil and criminal cases differ and how are they similar? In what way has literature and film depicted criminal trials, and how closely do these fictitious accounts mirror the reality of what goes on in the court room?
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Prerequisite
Prerequisite: must have taken one of the following: POS.2024, POS.2093, POS.2081, POS.1005 or POS.2105