LAW 605 - Criminal Justice Practice Skills

This course provides practice skills that will assist prosecutors and defense lawyers as they work their way through pre-trial, trial, sentencing, and post-trial practice in the criminal justice system. Among the topics explored will be how to conduct a preliminary hearing, navigating the discovery process and determining Brady material, learning how to conduct a suppression hearing, voir dire practice, making and overcoming motions to strike, handling sentencing hearings, and understanding the lawyer’s role in probation revocation proceedings. This course will be graded pass/fail based primarily on skills performance.