NACDL

News Conference - Introduction of the Fairness in Disclosure of Evidence Act

Federal Reform Legislation

• Coalition Letter on “Ensuring that Federal Prosecutors Meet Discovery Obligations,” June 5, 2012.
• Fairness in Disclosure of Evidence Act of 2012 
• NACDL Letter on the House Judiciary Crime Subcommittee Hearing on The Prosecution of Former Senator Ted Stevens, April 18, 2012.
• NACDL Letter on the Senate Judiciary Committee Stevens' Special Counsel Report Hearing and the Need for Reform, March 28, 2012. 
• One Page Summary 
• The Human Cost of Brady Violations 

America Needs Sensible Discovery Reform

Reform Proposals

• NACDL Proposed 18 USC § 3014, Duty to Disclose Favorable Information  
• NACDL Commentary to Proposed 18 USC § 3014, Duty to Disclose Favorable Information  
• American Bar Association Resolution and Report regarding disclosure rules (August 8-9, 2011) 
• Judge Emmet G. Sullivan’s Letter to Hon. Richard C. Tallman, Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the Rules of Criminal Procedure, Apr. 28, 2009, Proposing Rule 16 Reform 
• American College of Trial Lawyers, “Proposed Codification of Disclosure of Favorable Information Under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 11 and 16” (2003)

Reports

• Ted Stevens Prosecutorial Misconduct Report 
• Preliminary Statement By Counsel For Senator Ted Stevens 
• In-Depth Analysis By Counsel For Senator Ted Stevens 
• Judge Sullivan’s Order of Nov. 21, 2011 (In re Special Proceedings, Misc. No. 09-0198) 
• Federal Judicial Center, “Brady v. Maryland Material in the United States District Courts: Rules, Orders, and Policies” (2007)
• Federal Judicial Center, "A Summary of Responses to a National Survey of Rule 16 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and Disclosure Practices in Criminal Cases" (2011)

Academic Articles

• Janet Moore, Democracy and Criminal Discovery Reform After Connick and Garcetti, Brooklyn Law Review Vol. 77 No.4 (Summer 2012)
• Ellen Yaroshefsky, New Orleans Prosecutorial Disclosure in Practice After Connick v. Thompson, The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics Vol. 25:913
• Joel B. Rudin, The Supreme Court Assumes Errant Prosecutors Will Be Disciplined by Their Offices or the Bar: Three Case Studies that Prove that Assumption Wrong, 80 Fordham L. Rev. 537 (2011)
• Cardozo Law Review, New Perspectives on Brady and Other Disclosure Obligations: What Really Works?, Vol. 31 No. 6 (June 2010)
• Daniel S. Medwed, Brady’s Bunch of Flaws, 67 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 1533 (2010)
• Robert P. Mosteller, Exculpatory Evidence, Ethics, and the Road to the Disbarment of Mike Nifong: The Critical Importance of Full Open-File Discovery (2008)
• Jenny Roberts, Too Little, Too Late: Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, The Duty to Investigate, And Pretrial Discovery in Criminal Cases, 31 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1097 (2003-2004)

Department of Justice Policies

• "Federal Discovery Reform: DOJ's Baby Steps are Inadequate," by Norman Reimer, The Champion, March 2010.
• "New DOJ Discovery Policies Fall Short," White Collar Crime Prof Blog, January 5, 2010.
• "‘Brady’ Obligations: Codification and Clarification," by Elkan Abramowitz and Barry Bohrer, New York Law Journal, September 6, 2011.
• “Issuance of Guidance and Summary of Actions Taken in Response to the Report of the Department of Justice Criminal Discovery and Case Management Working Group," January 4, 2010.
• “Requirement for Office Discovery Policies in Criminal Matters,” January 4, 2010. 
• DOJ Guidance for Prosecutors Regarding Criminal Discovery, January 4, 2010 

Open-File Discovery Laws

• Ohio Disclosure Rules 
• North Carolina Disclosure Statute