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COURSE SYLLABUS: Federal Law Enforcement

Course Title: Department: Instructor:

CJ429 - Federal Law Enforcement Criminal Justice/Criminology George E. Guay III, J.D. E-Mail - Vitae

TEXT: Online Bookstore

Federal criminal law and its enforcement, Norman Abrams and Sara Sun Beale. 3rd Ed. West Publishing, 2001. ISBN #: 0314232788

Black Mass: The true story of an unholy alliance between the FBI and the Irish Mob, Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill. HarperTrade, 2001. ISBN #: 006095928

Course Description

In this course, students will examine the federal law enforcement. This overview will include a consideration of the organization and responsibilities of the federal system, with some special attention paid to the issue of jurisdiction. Successful completion of the course means that the student will have a detailed understanding about the role and impact of federal law enforcement

Components of Final Grade:

Case summary Chapter quizzes (5) Discussion Topics, Black Mass

40% 40% 20% 100%

Course Requirements

Students will have a week’s prior notice before any modificaiton of course requirements would take effect.

Discussion Topics

Students will see discussion topics for each of the chapters in the “Black Mass” text. Students will need to submit responses to each topic before proceeding onto the next chapter. Each submission must be at least two paragraphs in length.

Grading

Students will have to write responses to the discussion topic for each chapter in the “Black Mass” text (20% of the grade), will complete five quizzes (40% of the grade) and will write case summaries of certain cases in the Abram and Beales text (40% of the grade).

Testing

The student will successfully complete an "open book" quiz based only upon material in each of the five chapters in the Abrams and Beale text that the class will consider.

Students must provide their typed answers to the quiz no later than two days after the chapter has been finished.

If students copy material from the text, they must indicate that they’ve done so, by including the page number(s) that they’ve taken the material from.

Syllabus

If there is any question in a student's mind as to what is required for this class, the student has the responsibility to resolve such questions.

Case Summary

To gain a better understanding of the cases that the students will need to read for this course, each students will have to write a case summary of cases, listed below, from the Abrams and Beale text.

Summaries have to be thorough but need not be long. A person, ignorant of the case, should be able to read a summary and gain a good understanding of the significance of the case.

Each summary should answer this question: why is this case in the book? The authors have included this case to advance understanding about the specific topic. A case summary should explain why this case was sufficiently significant that the authors included it in this text.

An example, Batsell v. US, is posted in its own file.

Course Schedule

This is outline is a suggested sequence for doing the assignments. It is not mandatory; students should work through the material at a pace that feels comfortable to them.

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6

Introduction, Chapter 3 (Abrams & Beale) Black Mass: prologue, Part 1 Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 16 (Abrams & Beale) Black Mass: chapters 6-8 Chapter 16 (Abrams & Beale) Black Mass: chapters 9-12 Chapter 16, Chapter 11 (Abrams & Beale) Black Mass: chapters 13-16 Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 18 (Abrams & Beale) Black Mass: chapters 17-19 Chapter 18 (Abrams & Beale) Black Mass: chapter 20; epilogue

Cases

Chapter 3

US v. Page (23) Perez v. US (34) US v. Lopez (39) US v. Morrison (supplement)

Chapter 4

US v. Culbert (83) Perrin v. US (88)

Chapter 16

Heath v. Alabama (656)

Chapter 11

US v. Turkette N.O.W. v. Scheidler (457) Reves v. Ernst & Young (466)

J.J. Inc. v. Northwestern Bell (475) Salinas v. US (495)

Sedima, S.P.R.L. v. Imrex co., Inc., et al. (502)

Chapter 18

US v. Wilton Manors (791) US v. Basakajian (799) US v. BCCI Holdings (Luexembourg), S.A. (Petition of American Express Bank II) (815)

Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered v. US (833) US v. Elgersma (845)