Podcast Episode 185: Listen and Learn — Prosecution of a Criminal Trial (Burdens, Presumptions, Sufficiency)

Welcome back to the Bar Exam 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
• The Brainy Bar Bank: Streamlining Bar Study
• California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, February 2008
• California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, July 2010
• Podcast Episode 70: Tackling a California Bar Exam Essay: Criminal Law and Procedure
• Podcast Episode 79: Tackling an MEE Criminal Law/Procedure and Evidence Essay
• Podcast Episode 87: Listen and Learn – Homicide
• Podcast Episode 117: Listen and Learn – Due Process and Equal Protection (Con Law)
• Approaching Criminal Law Questions on the MBE

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