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Criminal Procedure

This library guide was created to assist J.D. students in Criminal Procedure at Nova Southeastern Shepard Broad College of Law, organizing online resources made available by the law library.

Criminal Procedure Library Guide

Welcome to the Criminal Procedure Library Guide designed to assist J.D. students in mastering course material. This guide offers a comprehensive collection of resources including case briefs, outlines, study aids/hornbooks, practice multiple-choice questions, practice essay questions, and CALI lessons. Additionally, you'll find multimedia resources such as video and audio content, along with specialized materials on Florida criminal procedure.

Class Preparation

The following resources are study aids that provide case briefs keyed to specific casebooks:

West Academic Study Aids

Aspen Learning Library

Quimbee

  • Click here to find case briefs keyed to your specific casebook

CALI Lessons

The CALI Criminal Procedure Outline allows you to search for terms of art that correspond to topics you are studying to find suggestions for related CALI Lessons. The CALI Criminal Procedure Index lists all CALI Lessons covering Criminal Procedure.

CALI Lessons: Criminal Procedure

4th Amendment 

  • Fourth Amendment Overview
  • Searches and Seizures with a Warrant: Issuance of the Warrant 1
  • Searches and Seizures with a Warrant: Issuance of the Warrant 2
  • Probable Cause
  • Searches and Seizures with a Warrant: Execution of the Warrant
  • Defining the Term "Search"
  • Stop and Frisk 
  • Stop and Frisk Exception 
  • Search Incident to Arrest
  • Automobile Searches 
  • Consent Searches 
  • The Consent Exception 
  • Plain View Doctrine 
  • Plain View Exception 
  • Exigent Circumstances 
  • Probable Cause to Search or Seize 
  • The Exclusionary Rule

5th Amendment 

  • Double Jeopardy

Confession / Interrogation (Miranda Rights)

  • Miranda I: Custody, Interrogation, and Waiver
  • Miranda II: Assertion of the Rights, Exceptions, and Other Limits 
  • Other Constitutional Limits to Interrogation 

6th Amendment 

  • The Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Doctrine 
  • Right to a Trial by Jury - Criminal Prosecution, Size, and Unanimity
  • Confrontation of Hearsay Declarants 
  • Right to Counsel at Trial (Introduction) 
  • Identifications in Criminal Cases: Law and Practice 

Sentencing 

  • Sentencing and Punishment (Non-capital) 

 

Video Resources

West Academic Study Aids

Aspen Learning Library

Quimbee

  • The Quimbee Criminal Procedure Course covers the comprehensive treatment of the rules and procedures that govern the pretrial processing of criminal suspects, and Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment rights.