POLS2020-A Criminal Law and Evidence (Summer 2024)
Course Details
Session, Dates: 1 (05/13/2024 - 08/23/2024)
Days: APPT
Time: -
Location: Moon Campus
Room:
Seats Available: APPT
Credits: 3
Course Description
This course is a basic introduction to the judicial process, with specific emphasis on federal criminal procedure. Students will learn the methods that the government uses to detect, investigate, apprehend, prosecute, convict, and punish criminals. It will cover the most common crimes prosecuted in American courts, including homicide, sexual assault, and theft, and common defenses, including insanity and self-defense. The course will first give an overview of criminal law and the American court system, and will then proceed to go through the constitutional provisions of criminal procedure chronologically as they occur in real life. The criminal justice system depends on the successful handling of evidence, and the last part of the course will emphasize the rules for the admissibility of evidence and the safeguards the Constitution provides for criminal defendants.
3 Credits
Course Materials
About the Instructor(s)
Justin P. DePlato, Ph.D.
deplato@rmu.edu
412-397-5912 phone
412-397-6044 fax
Wheatley Center 226
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Associate Professor of Political Science
Social Sciences
deplato@rmu.edu
412-397-5912 phone
412-397-6044 fax
Wheatley Center 226
Profile