LAW - 984A Advanced Trial Advocacy: Challenges and Obligations of the Prosecutor

(2 hrs)

This course seeks to give students an understanding about the daily responsibilities of a prosecutor and the typical challenges that prosecutors face in practice. Topics covered in this course include ethical rules governing the conduct of prosecutors, grand jury practice, analysis required in deciding to prosecute a case, and rules governing discovery requests, as well as other prosecution related trial preparation and presentation issues. This course is a combination of theory and practice. LAW-508 Criminal Procedure I