Criminal Procedure - Examination Approach

What is the FULL Mnemonic for Criminal Procedure’s initial Exam Approach?

• Even If I'm Away

• I'll Eventually Instruct Him

• Four Rats Search and Seize Everything

• Five Tipsy Sailors Confess Drunkenness

• Six Rabbits Rapidly Run to Play Red Rover Red Rover

• Eight Robbers Barely Escape Cops Patrolling & Hurrying Past

What does the Criminal Procedure Mnemonic stand for for the first two lines (Even If I’m Away, I’ll Eventually Instruct Him)?

• Exam Approach

  • Isolate evidence to be suppressed

  • IRAC constitutional power source

  • Analyze procedure used to obtain evidence

  • If evidence if illegally obtained, examine defendant’s standing to invoke exclusionary rule

  • Exclusionary rule analysis

  • IRAC other objectionable procedures

  • Harmless v Reversible Error
    

What does the Criminal Procedure Mnemonic stand for for the line, (Four Rats Search and Seize Everything)?

• FOURTH AMENDMENT

  • RULE

  • SEARCH

  • SEIZURE

  • EXCLUSIONARY RULE

What does the Criminal Procedure Mnemonic stand for for the line (Five Tipsy Sailors Confess Drunkenness)?

• FIFTH AMENDMENT

  • TWO RULES

  • SELF INCRIMINATION

  • CONFESSION

  • DOUBLE JEOPARDY

What does the Criminal Procedure Mnemonic stand for for the line (Six Rabbits Rapidly Run to Play Red Rover Red Rover)?

• SIXTH AMENDMENT

  • RULE

  • RIGHT TO COUNSEL

  • RIGHT TO CONFRONTATION

  • PLEAS

  • RIGHT TO SPEEDY TRIAL

  • RIGHT TO FAIR AND IMPATRIAL TRIAL

  • RIGHT TO PUBLIC TRIAL

  • RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY

What does the Criminal Procedure Mnemonic stand for for the line (Eight Robbers Barely Escape Cops Patrolling & Hurrying Past)?

• EIGTH AMENDMENT

  • RULE

  • BAIL

  • EXCESSIVE FINES

  • CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT

  • POST CONVICTION ISSUES

  • HABEAS CORPUS