Letter to the Judicial Conference Standing Committee on Rules of Practice & Procedure regarding proposed rule changes to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and Federal Rules of Evidence.

Letter to the Judicial Conference Standing Committee on Rules of Practice & Procedure regarding proposed rule changes to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Federal Rules of Evidence, and Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure.

Letter to the Judicial Conference Committee on Practice & Procedure regarding proposed changes to the Federal Rules of Evidence.

An attorney representing an incarcerated client has just received a package of discovery from the prosecutor. In some jurisdictions, counsel can send physical copies of the discovery to the client or electronic copies to the client’s facility. Other jurisdictions, however, forbid counsel from giving the client copies of the discovery: counsel and her staff must chaperone the discovery, even if that means the client can hand copy everything counsel brings to her. Lisa Steele provides suggestions for creating a record to challenge exclusive custody rules and protect a client’s rights.

President Gerald Goldstein's written statement to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and House Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs and Criminal Justice regarding government and law enforcement conduct in the 1993 confrontation between Branch Davidians and law enforcement in Waco, TX, and proposed changes in Exclusionary Rule Reform Act of 1995 (H.R. 666) and Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Improvement Act of 1995 (S. 3).

Susan Davis's written statement to the House Judiciary Committee regarding Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 1997 (H.R. 1965).

The panel held that the cumulative effect of the following errors rendered the defendant’s trial fundamentally unfair.

Court holds the district erred in admitting evidence of a prior conviction.

Order of Dismissal Following Grand Jury Abuse in a case involving involuntary manslaughter for the death of a child on a waterpark slide the Attorney General claimed was the result of negligence from the water park in the design, engineering, and construction of the attraction, billed as the tallest water slide in the world.

Motion to Suppress Traffic Stop for Following Too Closely.

Materials for arguing against government informant and ex parte discussions regarding the conspiracy and closing off discovery regarding the informant's statements regarding the alleged conspiracy.

Getting Facebook into Evidence.

Call Detail Records - What you should get in discovery from opposing counsel.

Motion for the production of testimony put before the grand jury in support of the charges of drug distribution, or conspiracy to distribute drugs with the intent to commit rape. This testimony is sought to “avoid a possible injustice”: Nunez’s status as the subject of a prosecution that is not supported by any evidence.

The district court’s admission of evidence regarding a prior bad act was an abuse of discretion.