ID NUMBER: ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ Spring 2019 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE FINAL EXAM Professor Rodriguez DURING THIS EXAM YOU ARE NOT TO HAVE ANY OTHER DOCUMENT OR A CELL PHONE OR ANY OTHER DEVICE THAT CAN TRANSMIT AND/OR RETAIN INFORMATION. POSSESSION OF THE ABOVE IS A VIOLATION OF THE HONOR CODE AND WILL BE DEALT WITH ACCORDINGLY. INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Do not use your own scrap paper. Instead, take 1 blue book, mark it as “Scrap,” write your student ID # on the front cover, and use it as scrap paper. Your scrap blue book must be turned in together with the exam packet at the end of the exam. 2. Your ANSWERS MUST BE WRITTEN DIRECTLY IN THIS EXAM PACKET, which you will turn in at the end of the exam. Limit your answer to the lines provided. I will not read anything written beyond the lines provided. Pay particular attention to the call of the question. 3. Do not identify yourself in the exam packet in any way other than by student ID. Do not write any information that might reveal who you are. 4. This is a closed-book examination. Other than writing implements, you are not to have any materials on your table or at your feet. Place all books, knapsacks, briefcases, etc. at the side or front of the room. You may also not have any articles of clothing or bag(s) on or underneath your seat. This exam consists of THREE parts for a total of 150 Points and will account for 75% of your semester grade. The total time for the exam is three hours. Part One consists of 4 directed short answer questions for a total value of 65 points; Part Two consists of 1 essay question for a total value of 55 points; and Part Three consists of 30 multiple choice questions worth a total value of 30 points; I will give a 15 minute warning, after which no one may leave the room until the exam ends. I will also warn you when 5 minutes remain and again when 1 minute remains. When I announce that time has expired you are to stop writing immediately. REMEMBER, ALL QUESTIONS ON THIS EXAM ARE BASED ON FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. Spring 2019 Criminal Procedure Final Exam Page 1 of 34 ID NUMBER: ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ PART ONE – DIRECTED SHORT ESSAY QUESTIONS This exam consists of four questions in the form of hypotheticals, each of which describes a situation that raises a specific legal issue, or in some instances more than one issue, and which is governed by a specific procedural rule. Each question requires that you identify the specific rule, or rules, that will control the result. For those questions that require you to draft an answer you must identify the issue, state the applicable rule, and apply that rule to the facts of the hypothetical. Answers should be written in the following form: Your answer must be a concise, proper analysis that includes: (1) Your statement of the likely result; (2) followed by an explicit statement of the governing rule of law; (3) followed by your application of that rule to the specific facts of the situation. Question 1. Defendant pleaded guilty in a trial court to an indictment charging him with capital murder. At his plea colloquy, Defendant, feeling bad about what he had done, told the judge that he had committed a string of burglaries, that he had no significant prior criminal record, and that at the time of his criminal spree he was under extreme stress caused by being married and his inability to support his family. In preparing for the sentencing hearing, Defendant’s defense counsel spoke with him about his background but did not seek out any character witnesses or any of Defendant’s immediate family, nor did he request a psychiatric examination. Defense counsel failed to do a number of things, including requesting a presentence report because he was worried it might include Defendant’s criminal history, thereby undermining his claim of no significant prior criminal record. At the sentencing hearing the judge told Defendant that he had “a great deal of respect for people who are willing to step forward and admit their responsibility.” However, the judge found numerous aggravating circumstances and no mitigating circumstances and sentenced Defendant to death on each of the murder counts. If the defendant were to appeal his conviction to the state’s appeals court, what is his strongest constitutional argument(s). How is the court likely to rule on his appeal and why? 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A man ran an illegal casino out of the basement of his house. The police grew suspicious as to his activities after seeing a number of known gamblers entering and exiting the side door of the man’s house at all hours of the night. A police officer staking out the house waited until he was sure the man had closed up his operations for the