LAW 7012

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LAW 7012
Advanced Criminal Procedure: Post-Conviction Remedies

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

This course examines the procedural and substantive law governing collateral challenges to criminal convictions in state and federal courts, and explores the tensions between the criminal justice system's competing interests in finality and production of reliable convictions and sentences. The course includes a historical overview of modern habeas corpus, studies substantive claims for relief common to collateral proceedings, and examines important procedural limitations on relief including the exhaustion requirement, procedural default, and no retroactivity. Much of the course will concentrate on the meaning, application and impact of the modifications to the federal habeas corpus statutes made by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.

When Offered Spring.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite or corequisite: Criminal Procedure is strongly recommended.

Satisfies Requirement Satisfies the writing requirement.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17669 LAW 7012   SEM 101

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