Spring 2027

Prosecution Function

Law course focusing on the prosecutor's role in the criminal justice system, covering charging decisions, drafting instruments, motion practice, and representing the state in court proceedings.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Lanny Glinberg

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.60 GPA, 60.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe the history of the American prosecutor and the varied reactive and proactive approaches to the prosecution function

  • Develop a command of substantive law doctrine in Wisconsin

  • Develop a command of the procedural requirements in Wisconsin criminal cases based constitutional law, statutes, and local practices

  • Develop an in-depth understanding of how local justice systems are organized and how the various shareholders interact and share authority

  • Develop an understanding of the complexity and importance of the charging decision

  • Differentiate the direct and collateral consequences of different enforcement strategies on perpetrators, victims and the community

  • Develop an understanding of professionalism – to conduct oneself with integrity, courtesy, punctuality, and quality in work and in interactions with others

  • Identify and apply the skills necessary to function as a trial level state prosecutor

  • Formulate strategies for effective self-directed learning in anticipation of summer externships

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Declared in Law JD

  • Declared in Law JD
LAW 797

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.60 GPA, 60.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

LANNY GLINBERG is recorded teaching in Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.60 GPA, 60.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Role of the prosecutor in the criminal justice system
  • Charging decisions, drafting charging instruments, and motion practice
  • Representation of the state in initial appearances, guilty pleas, sentencing, and post-conviction motions
  • History of the American prosecutor and approaches to the prosecution function

Skills

  • Making informed charging decisions, drafting charging instruments, and performing effective motion practice
  • Representing the state in court proceedings including initial appearances, guilty pleas, sentencing, and post-conviction motions
  • Command of Wisconsin substantive law doctrine
  • Command of procedural requirements in Wisconsin criminal cases based on constitutional law, statutes, and local practices

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LAW 797 · Spring 2027

Prosecution Function

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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