Search & Seizure Law in Colorado: Update and Overview - Webcast
September 2015
Search & Seizure Law in Colorado: Update and Overview
Presented by - H. Morley Swingle, Esq.
*Webcast participants: You must register by September 14 in order to receive a copy of the newly released updated edition of "Search & Seizure Law in Colorado" in print before the start of class; PDF will be available for download a week prior to start of class.
Program Description:
A thorough knowledge of search and seizure law is vital to the practice of criminal law. Prosecutors can lose a case before even filing it by giving incorrect advice to police officers. Defense lawyers can miss issues completely, causing clients to be needlessly convicted. Judges can violate their oath to uphold the Constitution by issuing incorrect rulings.
Not one word of the Fourth Amendment has changed in over 200 years, but search and seizure law is constantly evolving, as new cases are added to the Fourth Amendment mosaic. Staying current on the latest developments in this area of the law can be difficult and overwhelming.
This half-day seminar will give practitioners an overview of search and seizure law, while highlighting the latest decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court and Colorado appellate courts. It is designed to be useful for both experienced criminal law experts, as well as new practitioners.
The course materials consist of a book that can be taken to court at the next suppression hearing, putting the applicable case law at your fingertips.
Every attendee receives a copy of the newly released updated edition of "Search & Seizure Law in Colorado" by H. Morley Swingle!
Agenda:
8:30 to 9:00 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 to 9:20 am
Applicability of Fourth Amendment
U.S. & Colorado Constitutions (including areas where Colorado Constitution provides more protection than U.S. Constitution); Overview of Warrant Requirement & Exceptions; Non-Applicability Examples Including Open Fields, Abandoned Property, Government vs. Private Action, Grand Jury Subpoenas, and Standing
9:20 to 10:20 am
Searches By Warrant
Warrant Requirement; Statutory Mechanics; Colorado's Court Order For Records After Probable Cause Finding; Payton-Steagald Rule; Probable Cause; Anonymous Calls & Corroboration; Staleness; Anticipatory Search Warrants; Electronic Search Warrants; Blood Draws, Pumping Stomach & Laxatives; Knock & Announce; Particularity Requirement; Timeliness of Execution; Detaining & Searching Persons on Premises; Inventory & Return; Exclusionary Rule & Good Faith Exception; Computer Searches
10:20 to 10:30 am
Networking Break
10:30 to 11:40 am
Warrantless Searches
Search Incident to Arrest (including new developments concerning searches of cell phones); Probable Cause Search of Motor Vehicles; Suitcase Exception; Exigent Circumstances (including new developments about warrantless blood draws); Stop & Frisk; Plain View Doctrine; Aided Plain View; Plain Feel Doctrine; Plain Sniff Doctrine
11:40 to 12:20 pm
Warrantless Searches
Consent Searches; Inventory Searches; Inevitable Discovery & Independent Source Doctrines
12:20 to 12:30 pm
Suppression Hearings
Motions; Burden of Proof; Later Use of Defendant's Testimony; Interlocutory Nature; Fellow Officer Rule; Appeal by Prosecution
12:30 pm
Adjourn
Registration Fees
| Non Member | $259.00 |
| CBA Member | $219.00 |
| CBA Criminal Law Section Member | $189.00 |
| New Lawyer (in practice 5 years or less) | $169.00 |
| New Lawyer - CBA Criminal Law Section Member (in practice 5 yrs or less) | $149.00 |
| Paralegal/Legal Support Staff | $149.00 |
| CLEACCESSPASS--CLE ELITE Pass Holder | $0.00 |
| New Lawyer Edge Member | $0.00 |
- General Credits: 4.00
- Ethics Credits: 0.00
- EDI Credits:
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