Lead Homicide Refresher

This course will assist, inform and update lead homicide investigators in the laws as they pertain to criminal & homicide investigations. The course examines procedural law, substantive law, case law. Documented case studies are used to illustrate the current state of our laws.

Topics include:

• Making homicide offenses easy-to-understand
• Crime scene dynamics
• The concept of “legal responsibility’
• Miranda in the era of the SAFE-T Act
• Illinois mandate for the electronic recording of a suspect’s custodial interrogation
• Homicide search & seizure
• The craft of searching
• The decriminalization of marijuana
• The process of searching
• Homicide identification procedures
• The officer worn body camera in the ear of the SAFE-T Act
• The Fifth Amendment
• The Police Community Improvement Act