Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! The topic of today’s “Listen and Learn” episode is Criminal Procedure. Specifically, we’re talking about a few topics related to the prosecution of a criminal trial: burden of proof, presumptions, and sufficiency of the evidence.
In this episode we discuss:
- The burden of proof in a criminal case
- A review of the substantive law defining murder
- Rebuttable and irrebuttable presumptions in jury instructions
- How do we know whether the prosecution has met its burden?
- When can the defendant move for a judgment of acquittal?
- Analyzing two hypos from previous California bar exams
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Resources:
- “Listen and Learn” series
- California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, February 2008
- California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, July 2010
- Podcast Episode 248: Listen and Learn – Introduction to Homicide
- Podcast Episode 295: Listen and Learn – Due Process and Equal Protection (Con Law)
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