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2017-2018 Graduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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LAW 9310 - Death Penalty Project


Credits: 3

A practice-oriented course designed to teach the skills of interviewing, investigating, and researching legal issues in the pretrial, trial, and post-trial stages of death penalty cases. Addresses evidentiary questions, procedural questions, and the development of mitigation facts and circumstances. Limited to 12 students a term. A simultaneous classroom curriculum introduces students to the law and procedure necessary to provide effective assistance of counsel in death penalty defenses. Students work with lawyers appointed to death penalty cases while under the supervision of a faculty member. Grades are based on evaluation of case and classroom performance.



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