A Summary of Responses to a National Survey of Rule 16 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and Disclosure Practices in Criminal Cases
by Laural Hooper, David Rauma, Marie Leary, Shelia Thorpe ยท 2017
ISBN: 1542338409 9781542338400
Category: Law / Evidence
Page count: 192
The principal issues addressed in the survey are: - Should Rule 16 be amended to address pretrial disclosure of exculpatory and Giglio information? - Do federal prosecutors and defense attorneys understand their pretrial disclosure obligations? - Do federal prosecutors' concerns about witness intimidation, security, and privacy affect whether information or evidence is disclosed to the defense? - Are federal prosecutors viewed as fulfilling their pretrial discovery obligations? - How frequent are reverse-Jencks Act violations committed by defense attorneys? - How do courts address pretrial disclosure violations by the government and by defense attorneys? - How might the Committee's 2007 proposal affect cooperating witnesses and crime victims? - In addition to the Committee's 2007 proposal, are there other reform proposals that should be considered?