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Evidence before Crim Pro?
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 12:02 pm
by txig
I'm signing up for summer courses and one of my friends mentioned that it'd be wise to take evidence before/concurrent with criminal procedure. I was just wondering if that is necessary, or even helpful?
Appreciate any advice! Thanks.
Re: Evidence before Crim Pro?
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 12:36 pm
by kalvano
Not necessary at all. Crim Pro is more a con law class.
Re: Evidence before Crim Pro?
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 12:39 pm
by Tanicius
kalvano wrote:Not necessary at all. Crim Pro is more a con law class.
Yup. Evidence is basically 95% statutory with one very narrow constitutional issue that considers a few Supreme Court cases. CrimPro on the other hand is 100% case law. In real life there's a lot of overlap, but in a law school class there is no overlap whatsoever.
Re: Evidence before Crim Pro?
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 1:24 pm
by kalvano
Also, Crim Pro is a fun class if you have a good prof.
Re: Evidence before Crim Pro?
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 10:47 am
by samcro_op
I agree with all of this. The only time evidence has been relevant in any class has been Civ Pro.
Re: Evidence before Crim Pro?
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 10:56 am
by encore1101
the only evidence knowledge you'd need to know for crimpro is:
evidence that is unconstitutionally obtained will generally not be admissible = exclusionary rule.
there are exceptions to the exclusionary rule.
you won't even go over the exclusionary rule in a formal evidence course, so its wholly not necessary.