On December 1, 2019, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 16.1 (Rule 16.1 or the “Rule”) went into effect. With a focus on defense counsel’s ability to adequately prepare for trial, the Rule functions ...

Five years after the Maryland Court of Appeals first set the standards for gaining access to electronically stored information (ESI) during civil lawsuits, the Rules of Criminal Procedure remain ...

U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York on Monday reminded prosecutors about their obligations under recent amendments to Rule 16 of the ...

On April 7, 2020, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press sent a letter on behalf of a news media coalition to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts’ Committee on Rules of Practice and ...

A federal judge asked a judiciary rules committee this week to adopt a rule change that would extend the ability of courts to use videoconferencing technology in criminal hearings post-pandemic. In a ...

As criminal law has expanded into almost every sector of the American economy, one byproduct is the rise of "parallel proceedings"—lawsuits that proceed concurrently in criminal and civil court based ...

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court has adopted a new set of criminal procedures to bring uniformity to courtrooms at all levels in the state, a process that marks the final achievement of retiring Justice ...

(Reuters) -A group of prominent defense lawyers across the country have joined an effort to fix what they see as a ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure voted to approve multiple changes to the state’s rules on Thursday, including amending the rules for discovery in criminal ...

A group of prominent defense lawyers across the country have joined an effort to fix what they see as a fundamental imbalance in the federal criminal justice system: the near-total ban on pretrial ...