LAW - 984A Advanced Trial Advocacy: Homicide Prosecution

(2 hrs.)

This course focuses on a prosecutor’s role in a gang homicide case from the discovery of the victim up to and through prosecution and sentencing of co-defendants. Students are exposed to the day-to-day work of local prosecutors and essential skills and motions filed by prosecutors in the context of a gang homicide case. LAW-508 Criminal Procedure I, LAW-633 Evidence, and one of the following: LAW-684 Criminal Trial Advocacy, LAW-695 Civil Trial Advocacy or Criminal Justice Clinic.