Overview of Major Topics Covered:
Introduction: How to Study Criminal Procedure
Retroactivity
Harmless Error Doctrine
Incorporation Doctrine
Fourth Amendment: Generally
Text Explained
“Persons, Houses, Papers, and Effects”
"Search"
Seizure of Property
Probable Cause
Search Warrants and Their Execution
Arrest Warrants
Search Warrant Exceptions: Exigent Circumstances, Search Incident to Lawful Arrest, Cars and Containers Therein, Inventory Searches, Plain View, Consent, Terry v. Ohio Type Cases, Special Needs
Fourth Amendment Standing
Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule
Entrapment
Police Interrogation: Due Process Clause, Miranda v. Arizona, Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel
Pretrial Identification Procedures
Right to Counsel at Trial

About the Professor:
Joshua Dressler holds the Frank R. Strong Chair in Law at The Ohio State University's Michael E. Moritz College of Law. He has taught Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure for over 30 years, receiving “Best Professor” awards for teaching at various law schools, as well as a Distinguished Scholar award. Dressler has taught as a regular or visiting member of the faculties at U.C.L.A., University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Davis, University of Michigan, Wayne State, University of Iowa, Hamline University, University of British Columbia, University of Auckland, and McGeorge School of Law. He is an internationally recognized scholar, author of widely adopted casebooks in the fields of criminal law and procedure, and is the author of student-popular treatises in both criminal law and criminal procedure.