Trial Procedure

I.         Charging Decision

• Information/Complaint
• Indictment
• Preliminary Hearings
• Joinder/Severance
• Equal Privileges and Immunities Issues

II.       Pretrial Detention

• Grounds for Detention
• Bail

III.     Right to Counsel

• Scope and Applicability of the Right

IV.      Defendant’s Ability to Proceed

• Aid and Assist

V.        Case Scheduling

• Set-Overs/Continuances
• Scheduling Conflicts
• “Complex” Cases

VI.       Discovery

• State Obligations
• Defense Obligations
• Third Party Obligations
• Crime Victims

VII.     Notice

• Interpreters
• Defenses
• Evidence/Exhibits
• Witnesses
• Jury Trial

VIII.   Pre-Trial Motions

• Deadlines
• Form
• Sufficiency

IX.     Pre-trial Dismissal

• Demurrers (generally)
• Speedy Trial
• Double Jeopardy
• Ex Post Facto
• Equal Privileges and Immunities
• Venue
• Discovery Violations
• Civil Compromise
• State Unable to Proceed

X.       Plea Bargaining

• Guiding Principles
• Contract Pleas
• Equal Privileges and Immunities Issues
• Stipulated Agreements

XI.      Empaneling the Jury

• Composition
• Qualifications
• Improper Influences
• Voir Dire
• Selection

XII.     Jury Trials

• Right to Jury Trial
• Confrontation Clause
• Mistrial
• MJOA
• Presenting a Defense
• Jury Instructions

XIII.   Bench Trials

• Preservation
  

XIV.   Post-Trial Motions

• New Trial
• Arrest of Judgment
• Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict (MJOA)

XV.    Sentencing

• Substantive Law of Sentencing
• Merger
• Proportionality
• Vindictive Sentencing
• Equal Privileges and Immunities Issues