2016-IPG#26(12 NEW LAWS GOING INTO EFFECT IN 2017 PROSECUTORS ABSOLUTELY MUST KNOW ABOUT)

This two-hour podcast covers a live lecture presented by Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Kathy Storton on the new laws going into effect in 2017 that potentially impact criminal prosecutions. A special guest appearance is made by Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Tom Flattery, who discusses some of the new laws that make changes to the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act. The written edition of IPG that accompanies the podcast focuses on a dozen of the new laws going into effect in 2017 that prosecutors are most likely to want to know about, including new laws reducing peremptory challenges in misdemeanor cases, allowing business records obtained by warrant to be admitted in the same way as business records obtained by subpoena, allowing juveniles to engage in prostitution without any criminal penalties, criminally penalizing prosecutors for engaging in bad faith, intentional Brady violations, eliminating the statute of limitations for certain sex offenses, and requiring state prison for persons who rape unconscious or intoxicated victims.