Search and Seizure

May 10 - 11, 2010
Champaign IL
8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Non-Member Tuition:  - 0 -

This course will provide a comprehensive examination of search and seizure law in a manner that integrates and reconciles new cases with existing doctrine.  Both days will be devoted exclusively to search and seizure issues, allowing ample opportunity for student-instructor interaction.  Instruction will include the latest decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court and Illinois' supreme and appellate courts, as well as selected decisions from federal circuit courts.

This course is funded by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board through a grant from the Illinois Terrorism Task Force.  Search and seizure issues related to terrorism and terrorism investigation will be addressed.

Topics include:

        Conducting Terry Stops & Terry Frisks
        Search Incident to Arrest
        Consent Searches
        Developing Probable Cause & Reasonable Suspicion
        Controlling Persons during Warrant Execution
        Hot Pursuit to Enter and Arrest
        Search Warrant Execution
        Use of Drug Dogs
        Scope Limitations on the Conduct of Traffic Stops
        Suspicionless Search of Persons on MSR (parole)
        Community Caretaking Searches and Seizures
        Mobile Conveyance Exception
        Consensual Encounters
        Selected Search & Seizure Issues Related to Terrorism
        Accessing Intelligence Resources to Investigate Terrorism


Instructor:    Kevin Burke, Attorney at Law

                             
 

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