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CJS 201 - Laws Of Criminal Evidence

3 Credits
Lecture: 3

Laws of Criminal Evidence examines why certain testimony, objects and materials should be admitted or rejected as evidence in criminal tirals. Students learn about the evolution of evidence laws, the trial process, privileges, hearsay, confessions and admissions, pretrial investigation and identification procedures, expert and lay opinion, scientific evidence, character evidence, presumptions, and evidence collection and preservation.

Articulation: 1.2

Prerequisite: CJS 101  
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