AJ 001 INTRO TO AJ
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  • Criminal Justice Club
  • Week 1-Syllabus
  • 15 Steps in the Criminal Justice Process
  • 1st Institution in the CJ System- Law Enforcement
  • Role and Function - Police Brutality Ethics
  • Probable Cause
  • Exclusionary rule
  • Broken Windows Theory
  • History of the Police
  • Crime and Victimization
  • 2nd- Institution in the CJ System- Courts
  • Court - Prosecution/Defense
  • Court - Pre-Trial Procedures
  • Juvenile Justice
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  • The Criminal Trial
  • Corrections
  • 3rd- Institution in the CJ process- Corrections
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  • Videos - Sticks&Stones-American Federalism

Probable Cause- This is a difficult term to understand.  Please pay attention!

Exclusionary Rule - This is a difficult term to understand. Please pay attention! 
Be prepared to understand how the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution relate to probable cause? Think about your response.

How does the 4th Amendment to the US constitution relate to probable cause?

If you have been following the news. Probable cause has been a topic of conversation about how the FBI violated the 4th amendment against a campaign member of Donald Trump. 

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Identify those issues a police officer will face with probable cause.   In this video, what could Officer Reed have done differently to get his original arrest of Sparky to stick?  What did the agency do to assist Officer Reed develop his experience to develop probable cause?

To see how difficult this term is, the FBI has issues trying to understand ethics and probable cause, and how it is so significant to law enforcement in any level of service.  Local, State or Federal.  Watch this CBS special.

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/fbi-director-on-privacy-electronic-surveillance

To understand how law enforcement develops probable cause, how law enforcement develops their cases for court.

This is an interesting video on how the court process works.  Prosecution's responsibilities, defense responsible for defending their clients and how the criminal justice system works.  Look for probable cause in the video Sticks and Stones.

Sticks and Stones part 1- While watching this video. Pay attention to the laws being violated by the football players.  What laws are they? Theft is not what they did in the store. 

Also pay close attention to the term "Probable Cause" and how it is applied in this video. How is it used and how does it relate to the 4th Amendment f the U.S. Constitution.

Pay attention to search and seizure and what the Police Detectives did during their search that was a 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution violation. What are the elements, and how is it applied in this incident?

Sticks and stones part 2 - While watching this video, pay attention to the courts role in verifying the actions of the Police Detectives. What actions did the detectives do that are in argument with the courts.

Also pay attention to the courts and how the process proceeds while the court session is in process.  What are the roles of each person in the court process. The prosecutor- what is his actions and how they interact with law enforcement detectives. What is the defense attorney role, what is their role in respect to the defendant.? 

Pay attention to these actions and watch the videos to their conclusion. They make good arguments and a great summary at the conclusion.

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