Welcome to our interactive criminal procedure class!
We spend our Wednesday afternoons together interrogating the central promise of US criminal justice: to balance the power of government to protect the safety and security of all persons against those who want to do them harm, while at the same time protecting their right to come and go as they please without government interference, and guaranteeing all persons that the government will enforce the law on the street, at the police station, in the courts, and when punishing criminal wrongdoing. This promise is also the criminal blaming and punishing regime's greatest problem: How close to social reality is the promise of EQUAL rights and justice to every individual. This promise and this problem have fascinated our beloved "U" undergrads--and me--at least once a year since 1971. I promise to work as hard as I can to make our Interactive Criminal Procedure ZOOM 2022 fascinating and valuable too!😺
A final word: You'll probably learn some actual criminal procedure law in our interactive journey through the criminal process. Good for you. But, remember our goal is above all to work on developing YOUR CPI