California Legal Updates

March 20, 2018 Download this update

• Fourth Amendment Seizures of a Child
• Fourteenth Amendment Deprivation of a Family Relationship
• A Government Entity’s Civil Liability for Failure to Train
• Threats of the Death Penalty and Offers of Leniency
• Youth and Length of an Interrogation as Related to Voluntariness of a Confession
• Dissuading Witnesses

March 2018 Download this update

• 2018 Search & Seizure Update

February 11, 2018 Download this update

• Arrests and Probable Cause
• Qualified Immunity and Clearly Established Precedent
• Miranda; Waiver of Rights
• Confessions and the Issue of Voluntariness
• Miranda; Honoring a Suspect's Invocation of his Right to Counsel
• Miranda; Waiver of a Suspect's Right to Counsel Upon his Attempted Reinitiation of an Interrogation

January 19, 2018 Download this update

• Miranda and Custodial Interrogations
• The Beheler Admonishment
• Ident-A-Drug Website; Admissibility in Evidence
• Ident-A-Drug Website; Hearsay and Confrontation Issues
• Controlled Substances; Proof by Circumstantial Evidence
• Miranda; Waiver of Rights and Implied Waivers
• Juveniles and Interrogations
• Interrogation Tactics; Offers of Leniency
• Interrogation Tactics; Use of Deceptions

January 1, 2018 Download this update

• New and Amended Statutes for 2018

December 15, 2017 Download this update

• The California Public Records Act; Information Contained in Private Electronic Devices
• DUI; Scope of a Consent for the Withdrawal of a Blood Sample
• DUI; Warrantless Blood Draws and Consent
• Cellphones and Fourth Waiver Searches
• Searches of Containers in Vehicles
• Probation and Parole Searches of Vehicles
• Inevitable Discovery Doctrine

November 21, 2017 Download this update

• P.C. § 148(a)(1) and Flight from an Attempted Detention
• P.C. § 1170(h)(5); Mandatory Supervision Searches
• P.C. § 245(c): Assault on a Peace Officer
• Pretextual Stops
• Administrative Searches
• Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Doctrine
• Search Warrants and the Particularity Requirement

November 3, 2017 Download this update

• Vehicle Code § 22520.5(a); Soliciting on Freeway Ramps
• Miranda; Anticipatory Invocations in a DUI Context
• Miranda; the Booking Questions Exception
• Trespass, per P.C. § 602.1(a)
• Prolonged Detentions
• Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Doctrine
• Coordinated Traffic Stops and the Fourth Amendment

October 12, 2017 Download this update

• Carjacking, per P.C. § 215(a); Force
• Search Warrants and Material Omissions
• Child Pornography
• Consensual Encounters vs. Detentions
• Patdowns for Weapons

September 8, 2017 Download this update

• Use of Deadly Force and Failure to Warn
• Civil Liability, Qualified Immunity, and Clearly Established Precedent
• Detentions Based Upon Telephone Tipster Information
• Arrests; Flight from an Attempted Detention
• Searches Incident to Arrest
• Searches of Vehicles with Probable Cause
• Texting While Driving, Vehicular Manslaughter, and Gross Negligence
• P.C. § 632(d); Confidential Communications
• P.C. § 633.5 as it relates to the “Vicarious Consent Doctrine”

August 19 Download this update

• Searches Incident to a Non-Bookable Offense
• V.C. § 22350; the Basic Speed Law
• P.C. § § 664/288(a); Attempted Lewd and Lascivious Act on a Child Under 14
• P.C. § 422; Criminal Threats
• Use of Force and Police Service Dogs

July 22, 2017 Download this update

• Large Capacity Magazines (Admin. Notes)
• Brady & Pitchess (Admin. Notes)
• Use of Force and the “Provocation Rule”
• Thirty Day Impounds of Vehicles per V.C. § 14602.6(a)
• Firearms and W&I Code § 5150 Mental Patients
• V.C. § 31; Providing False Information to a Peace Officer
• P.C. § § 849.5 and 851.6(b) & (d); Unfiled Arrests being Denoted as Detentions

June 29, 2017 Download this update

• Miranda Invocations
• Consent Searches of a Residence
• Inevitable Discovery
• Protective Orders per Family Code §§ 6218 & 6389
• Search Warrants; Redacting Illegally Obtained Information
• Miranda Admonishments
• Miranda; Implied Waivers
• Miranda; Reinitiation of an Interrogation After an Invocation of the Right to Remain Silent

May 1st, 2017 Download this update

• Searches of Cellphones
• Searches Incident to Arrest
• Searches Incident to Citation
• Knock and Notice
• Residential Entries Based Upon the Consent of a Cotenant
• Theft by False Pretenses
• The Californians Against Sexual Exploitation Act (CASE Act)
• Juveniles and the CASE Act

March 24, 2017 Download this update

• DUI Blood Extractions and Consent
• Disorderly Conduct per P.C. § 647(j)(1)
• Reasonable Expectation of Privacy
• V.C. § 2800.2; A Distinctive Uniform
• Vehicle Inventory Searches
• Vehicle Searches Incident to Arrest

March 2017Download this update

• 2017 Search & Seizure Update

February 1, 2017 Download this update

• Robbery and Community Property
• Burglary; Entry of a Room Within a Structure
• Police Dogs and Use of Force
• The Dissipation of Probable Cause or a Reasonable Suspicion
• Protective Sweeps
• Residential Searches and the Exigency Exception to the Search Warrant Requirement

January 3, 2017 Download this update

• New and Amended Statuses for 2017

December 5, 2016 Download this update

• Vehicle Impoundments and the Community Caretaking Doctrine
• Vehicle Inventory Searches
• Search Warrants and Motions to Traverse
• Standing, and Searches of Vehicles
• Searches of Vehicles not Listed in a Search Warrant
• Detentions and Reasonable Suspicion
• Consensual Encounters and Detentions
• Vehicles Searches; Searches for Identification and Vehicle Documentation

November 14, 2016 Download this update

• Confessions and Offers of Leniency
• Postrelease Community Supervision and Fourth Amendment Waivers pursuant to P.C. 3456(a)
• P.C. § 148(a)(1) and a Defendant’s Refusal to Cooperate
• Miranda; Unequivocal Invocations to Remain Silent
• Coercive Interrogations
• Curbstone and Photographic Lineup Procedures

October 24, 2016 Download this update

• Dirk or Dagger, per P.C. §§ 21310 & 16470
• Assault on a Peace Officer with Force Likely to Produce Great Bodily Injury; per P.C. § 245(c)
• Drunk in Public and Civil Commitments, per P.C. § 647(g)
• Residential Burglaries and Circumstantial Evidence
• Attempted Burglaries
• Attempts, per P.C. § 654
• Gang Enhancements, per P.C. § 186.22(b)(1)
• Evading a Peace Officer per V.C. § 2800(a)

September 23, 2016 Download this update

• Use of Force and High Speed Chases
• Search Warrants: Material Omissions
• Search Warrants: Stale Information
• Search Warrants: A Franks Motion to Traverse
• Battery, per P.C. § § 242 & 243.6
• Battery, per P.C. § § 242 & 243(e)(1) ; Indirect Touching
• Confessions; Offers of Leniency
• Cooperation Agreements
• Robbery/Murder Special Circumstances
• Use of Recalcitrant Witnesses, Hearsay, and the Sixth Amendment

August 24, 2016 Download this update

• Probation Fourth Waiver Searches
• Search Warrants to Eliminate Suspects
• Buccal Swab Evidence
• The Posse Comitatus Act
• Estimations of Speed as Reasonable Suspicion for a Traffic Stop
• Residential Burglaries and Recreational Vehicles

July 24, 2016 Download this update

• Arrest Warrants
• Fruit of the Poisonous Tree; Attenuation of the Taint
• DUI Arrests and Blood or Breath Tests
• Searches with Exigent Circumstances
• Searches Incident to Arrest
• Implied Consent and DUI Arrests
• Officer Safety
• Detentions Without Reasonable Suspicion
• Gang Prosecutions
• Gang-Related Expert Opinions

June 24, 2016 Download this update

• Prolonged Detentions
• Detentions and Reasonable Suspicion
• Detentions and the Use of Handcuffs
• Infraction Offenses and Custodial Arrests
• Reverse Sting Operations and Outrageous Governmental Misconduct
• Entrapment
• Residential Burglary
• Commercial Burglary
• Forgery and the Intent to Defraud

May 26, 2016 Download this update

• Firearms; Carrying in a Backpack on the Person
• Miranda: Unequivocal Invocation of the Right to Remain Silent
• Miranda: Unequivocal Invocation of the Right to Counsel
• A Claim-Of-Right Self-Help Defense Under CALCRIM No. 1863
• Prolonged Traffic Stops

May 2016Download this update

• 2016 Miranda Update

April 24, 2016 Download this update

• Fourth Waiver Cellphone Searches
• Good Faith Cellphone Searches
• Miranda; Invocation of Right to Remain Silent
• Interrogations; Coercion
• Blood Draws from an Unconscious DUI Suspect
• Implied Consent, per V.C. § 23612(a)(5)
• Good Faith Reliance Upon a Statute
• Loitering Near School Grounds, per P.C. § 654b

March 31, 2016 Download this update

• Knock and Talks
• Protective Sweeps
• Inevitable Discovery
• Street Terrorism, per P.C. § 186.22(a)
• Juvenile Probation Conditions and Electronic Social Media
• Criminal Street Gang Allegations, per P.C. 186.22(b)
• Miranda and the Two-Step Interrogation Technique

January 2016Download this update

• 2016 Search & Seizure Update

February 23, 2016Download this update

• Miranda and Implied Waivers
• Confessions and Coerced Statements
• Offers of Leniency
• Miranda; Ambiguous Attempts at an Invocation
• Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel
• Criminal Street Gang Allegations, per P.C. 186.22(b)
• Interrogation Techniques and Minors

January 21, 2016Download this update

• P.C. § 148(a)(1) and Exhorting Others Not to Cooperate with Police
• P.C. § 148(a)(1) and Refusing to Cooperate with Police
• P.C. § 148(a)(1) and a Detainee Refusing to Identify Himself
• Search Warrants; Staleness and Breadth
• Disorderly Conduct, per P.C. 647(j)(2); An Identifiable Person
• Permitting a Loaded Firearm In a Vehicle; per P.C. § 26100(a)

January 1, 2016Download this update

• New and Amended Statutes for 2016