LAW 784 - Grand Jury Law & Practice

Unit(s): 3

This course will study the ethics and practice of the grand jury, including its history and current realities. Students will learn practice skills, ethics, and policy implications, largely through case studies of recent police fatal force cases taken to grand juries. Students will perform various roles in a grand jury felony case from opening statement, direct exam of witnesses, to closing argument and jury instruction, before real prosecution and defense litigation experts for real critiques; they will also study appellate briefs on a grand jury issue and perform an oral appellate argument.

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