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Judicial Conference to Review Prosecution Disclosure Obligations

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That's the title of a post at The BLT by Mike Scarcella.  LINKAmending the rules of criminal procedure to require prosecutors to disclose any exculpatory information to the defense will be considered during the October meeting of the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the Rules of Criminal Procedure, the committee chairman said in a letter to a federal judge in Washington published this week. Judge Emmet Sullivan of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote the committee in April urging it to re-examine amending Rule 16 to require the disclosure of any exculpatory information. In 2006, the Justice Department opposed the amendment, according to Sullivan?s letter. Justice lawyers argued then that modifying the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 09, 2009 (boomark / email).