Please use the below index to view a specific section of the publication.
- ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT …………………….16
- ADVICE OF COUNSEL OR OTHER EXPERT …………………….17
- AIDING AND ABETTING …………………….19
- APPEAL …………………….27
- (Cumulative Error Doctrine) …………………….27
- (Government Appeal) …………………….29
- (Harmless Error / Plain Error) …………………….31
- (Law of the Case) …………………….33
- (Magistrate Decision Appeal) …………………….34
- (Moot) …………………….35
- (Preservation of Issue for appeal) …………………….36
- (Spillover Effect) …………………….38
- (Sufficiency of Evidence) …………………….40
- (Transcripts) …………………….46
- (Waiver of Right to Appeal Sentence) …………………….47
- ARMED ROBBERY / BANK ROBBERY …………………….53
- ARREST …………………….55
- ARSON AND EXPLOSIVES …………………….56
- ASSAULT …………………….58
- ASSIMILATIVE CRIMES ACT …………………….60
- ATTEMPTED CRIMES …………………….61
- ATTORNEY-CLIENT ISSUES …………………….65
- (Conflicts) …………………….65
- (Contacting a Represented Party) …………………….81
- (Ineffective – Generally and Procedural Issues) …………………….83
- (Ineffective Assistance of Counsel — Appeal) …………………….85
- (Ineffective Assistance of Counsel — Death Penalty Cases) …………………….94
- (Ineffective Assistance of Counsel – Guilty Plea) …………………….110
- (Ineffective Assistance of Counsel – Pre-trial Motions and Investigation) …………………….122
- (Ineffective – trial and sentencing) …………………….137
- (Attorney-Client Privilege) …………………….159
- (Right To Counsel) …………………….173
- (Criminal Justice Act “CJA”) …………………….190
- Right To Counsel (Waiver of Right – Faretta Issues) …………………….192
- (Attorney Work Product) …………………….201
- BAIL REFORM ACT …………………….205
- BANK FRAUD …………………….211
- BANKS, MISAPPLICATION OF BANK FUNDS …………………….216
- BANK ROBBERY …………………….217
- BANKRUPTCY FRAUD …………………….218
- BATSON …………………….219
- BILL OF PARTICULARS…………………….220
- BRADY …………………….222
- BRIBERY AND GRATUITIES …………………….263
- BRUTON …………………….270
- CARJACKING …………………….277
- CHANGE OF VENUE …………………….278
- CHARACTER EVIDENCE …………………….280
- CHILD PORNOGRAPHY …………………….282
- CHILD SEX OFFENSES …………………….283
- CHILD SUPPORT RECOVERY ACT …………………….285
- CIGARETTE OFFENSES…………………….286
- CLASSIFIED INFORMATION PROCEDURE ACT …………………….287
- CLOSING ARGUMENT …………………….288
- (Comment on Evidence or Information not in the …………………….288
- Record or Mischaracterization of Evidence) …………………….288
- (Improper Comment on Defendant’s Failure to Testify) …………………….295
- (Improper Restriction on Defendant’s Closing Argument) …………………….298
- (Improper Vouching or Bolstering)…………………….300
- (Other Improper Arguments) …………………….305
- CO-DEFENDANT’S GUILTY PLEA OR CONVICTION …………………….319
- COMPETENCE TO STAND TRIAL OR ENTER GUILTY PLEA …………………….322
- COMPUTER FRAUD AND ABUSE ACT …………………….333
- COMPULSORY PROCESS …………………….335
- CONFESSION …………………….336
- (Fruit of Illegal Arrest or Illegal Search) …………………….336
- (Fruit of Illegally Obtained Confession) …………………….338
- (Miranda – Sufficiency of Waiver) …………………….342
- (Miranda – Sufficiency of Warning)…………………….344
- (Miranda – In Custody Requirement) …………………….346
- (Impeaching Defendant With Miranda- or Massiah-Tainted Statement) …………………….355
- (Miranda — Interrogation Requirement) …………………….356
- (Public Safety Exception) …………………….362
- (Psychiatric Examination) …………………….363
- (Right To Counsel) …………………….365
- (Right to Remain Silent) …………………….379
- (Jackson-Denno hearings)…………………….385
- (Juveniles) …………………….386
- (McNabb-Mallory Rule) …………………….387
- (Sufficiency of Evidence to Corroborate a Confession) …………………….389
- (Voluntariness) …………………….390
- CONFLICT OF INTEREST …………………….398
- CONFRONTATION …………………….399
- CONFRONTATION CLAUSE …………………….407
- CONSPIRACY …………………….419
- CONTEMPT …………………….461
- CONTINUANCES …………………….472
- CONTINUING CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE …………………….475
- COPYRIGHT …………………….477
- COUNTERFEIT GOODS …………………….478
- COUNTERFEITING …………………….479
- CREDIT CARD FRAUD …………………….480
- CRIME OF VIOLENCE…………………….481
- CROSS-EXAMINATION …………………….482
- CROSS-EXAMINATION …………………….496
- CURRENCY TRANSACTION REPORTS (CTR) …………………….501
- DEATH PENALTY …………………….503
- DEFENDANT’S APPEARANCE AT TRIAL (SHACKLING) …………………….513
- DEFENDANT’S PRESENCE AT TRIAL …………………….515
- DEFENDANT’S RIGHT TO SELF-REPRESENTATION …………………….522
- DEFENDANT’S RIGHT TO TESTIFY …………………….526
- DEPOSITIONS …………………….528
- DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE …………………….530
- DETAINERS …………………….532
- DISCOVERY …………………….533
- DOUBLE JEOPARDY …………………….542
- DRUGS …………………….569
- (Analogue Act) …………………….569
- (Causing Death) …………………….571
- (Conspiracy) …………………….572
- (Doctors / Pharmacists) …………………….573
- (Importation) …………………….575
- (Maintaining A House for Purpose of Distributing Drugs) …………………….576
- (Possession — Possession with Intent to Distribute) …………………….577
- (Precursor Sales) …………………….594
- (School Yard / Playground) …………………….595
- (Use of Juvenile) …………………….597
- (Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act Violations) …………………….598
- (Distribution) …………………….599
- (Identification of Drug) …………………….600
- DUE PROCESS…………………….601
- DURESS / COERCION / NECESSITY / JUSTIFICATION …………………….604
- EMBEZZLEMENT …………………….606
- ENTICING A MINOR FOR SEX …………………….607
- ENTRAPMENT …………………….610
- ENTRAPMENT BY ESTOPPEL …………………….620
- ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES …………………….622
- ESCAPE …………………….623
- EVIDENCE …………………….624
- (Charts and Summaries) …………………….624
- (Evidence of Civil or Regulatory Violations) …………………….626
- (Defendant’s Right To Present Exculpatory Evidence) …………………….628
- (Hearsay – Evidence Offered by the Government) …………………….649
- (Hearsay – Evidence Offered by the Defendant) …………………….659
- (Rule 104 – Preliminary determination of admissibility) …………………….665
- (Rule 106 – Rule of Completeness)…………………….666
- (Rule 403 – Prejudice versus Relevance) …………………….667
- (Rule 404(a)) – Character Evidence) …………………….680
- (Rule 404(b) – Similar Transactions – General Principles) …………………….682
- (Rule 404(b) — Similar Transactions; Other Offenses – DRUG CASES)…………………….686
- (Rule 404(b) – Similar Transactions – Non-Drug Cases) …………………….695
- (Rule 404(b) – Similar Transactions – Defendant’s Use of 404(b) Evidence) …………………….706
- (Rule 404(b) – Notice Requirement) …………………….708
- (Rule 405 – Character Evidence) …………………….709
- (Rule 408 – Civil Settlement Negotiations) …………………….710
- (Rule 410 and Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(f))…………………….711
- (Rule 412 – Rape Shield Statute) …………………….713
- (Rules 413 and 414 – Evidence of Similar Crimes in …………………….715
- Sexual Assault and Child Molestation Cases) …………………….715
- (Rule 605 – Judicial Testimony) …………………….716
- (Rule 606(b)) …………………….717
- (Rule 608(a) – Opinion testimony relating to witness’s truthfulness) …………………….719
- (Rule 608(b) – Impeachment through prior bad acts) …………………….720
- (Rule 609 – Impeachment through prior conviction)…………………….724
- (Rule 613 – Prior Inconsistent Statement) …………………….728
- (Rule 701 – Opinion Testimony) …………………….731
- (Rule 702 – Expert Testimony) …………………….738
- (Rule 801(d)(1)(A) — Inconsistent Statement in Sworn Testimony) …………………….739
- (Rule 801(d)(1)(B) – Prior Consistent Statements) …………………….740
- (Rule 801(d)(2)(B) – Adopted Admissions) …………………….743
- (Rule 801(d)(2)(D) – Statement of party’s agent) …………………….744
- (Rule 801(d)(2)(E) – Co-conspirator statements) …………………….746
- (Rule 803(1) – Present Sense Impression) …………………….751
- (Rule 803(2) — Excited Utterance) …………………….753
- (Rule 803(3) – State of Mind) …………………….754
- (Rule 803(4) – Statement Made for Medical Diagnosis) …………………….755
- (Rule 803(6) – Business Records) …………………….756
- (RULE 803(8) – Public Records and Reports) …………………….760
- (RULE 803(15) — statement in a document affecting an interest in property) …………………….761
- (Rule 803(18) – Learned Treatise) …………………….762
- (Rule 803(24) – Residual Exception – NOW Rule 807) …………………….763
- (Rule 804(a) – Definition of Unavailability) …………………….764
- (Rule 804(b)(1) – Prior Testimony) …………………….765
- (Rule 804(b)(3) — Statement Against Interest) …………………….768
- (Former Rule 804(b)(5)) — SEE: Rule 807) …………………….772
- (Rule 804(b)(5) – Forfeiture by Wrongdoing) …………………….773
- (Rule 806 – Impeaching Declarant) …………………….775
- (Rule 807 – Residual Exception) …………………….777
- (Rule 901 – Authentication) …………………….779
- (Rule 1002 – Best Evidence Rule) …………………….781
- EX POST FACTO …………………….782
- EXAMINATION OF PHYSICAL EVIDENCE …………………….787
- EXPERT TESTIMONY …………………….788
- (Expert Evidence Offered by the Government) …………………….795
- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORD …………………….806
- EXTORTION …………………….807
- EXTORTIONATE EXTENSIONS OF CREDIT …………………….808
- EXTRADITION …………………….809
- EXTRATERRITORIAL APPLICATION OF LAWS …………………….810
- EYEWITNESS IDENTIFICATION …………………….811
- FAIR TRIAL / FREE PRESS …………………….812
- FALSE STATEMENTS / FALSE CLAIMS …………………….815
- FEDERAL OFFICER REMOVAL STATUTE …………………….823
- FIFTH AMENDMENT …………………….824
- FIFTH AMENDMENT …………………….831
- FINGERPRINT EVIDENCE …………………….842
- FIREARMS …………………….843
- FIRST AMENDMENT …………………….877
- FLIGHT EVIDENCE …………………….881
- FOOD AND DRUG ACT VIOLATIONS …………………….882
- FORCED LABOR …………………….883
- FORFEITURE …………………….884
- (Attorneys Fees)…………………….884
- (Criminal Procedure) …………………….890
- (Extent of Forfeiture; Proportionality; Excessive Fine) …………………….895
- (Innocent Owner Defense) …………………….898
- (Miscellaneous) …………………….899
- (Procedure — Generally) …………………….902
- (Procedure – Notice of Seizure) …………………….904
- (Procedure — Seizure) …………………….906
- (Standing) …………………….910
- (Sufficiency of Evidence to Support Forfeiture) …………………….912
- FORGERY …………………….916
- FUNDS FOR EXPERTS …………………….917
- GAMBLING …………………….920
- GOVERNMENTAL MISCONDUCT …………………….922
- GRAND JURY …………………….934
- GUILTY PLEAS …………………….948
- (Advice of Possible Sentence and Consequence of Plea) …………………….948
- (Conditional Plea) …………………….954
- (Factual Basis and Advice of Nature of Charges) …………………….955
- (Miscellaneous) …………………….963
- (PLEA AGREEMENTS) …………………….968
- (Right to Withdraw) …………………….969
- (Voluntariness; Adequacy of Waiver of Rights) …………………….978
- HANDWRITING EVIDENCE …………………….982
- HARBORING A FUGITIVE …………………….983
- HATE CRIME …………………….984
- HEALTH CARE FRAUD …………………….985
- HOBBS ACT …………………….987
- IDENTIFICATION …………………….994
- IDENTITY THEFT …………………….999
- IMMIGRATION OFFENSES …………………….1002
- IMMUNITY …………………….1011
- IMPOSSIBILITY …………………….1012
- INDICTMENTS …………………….1013
- INFORMANTS — DISCOVERY …………………….1041
- INSANITY …………………….1042
- INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE SUMMONS …………………….1046
- INTERPRETERS …………………….1047
- INTERSTATE OFFENSES …………………….1049
- INTOXICATION DEFENSE …………………….1056
- JENCKS ACT …………………….1057
- JUDGES …………………….1060
- JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT …………………….1069
- JUROR MISCONDUCT / EXTRINSIC EVIDENCE / ISSUES DURING DELIBERATIONS …………………….1073
- JURY …………………….1085
- (Alternates) …………………….1085
- (Anonymous Jury) …………………….1087
- (Eleven-Member Jury) …………………….1088
- (Evidence in Jury Room) …………………….1089
- (Fair Cross Section)…………………….1091
- (Hung Jury) …………………….1093
- (PARTIAL VERDICT)…………………….1094
- (QUESTIONING WITNESSES) …………………….1095
- (Removal of Juror During Deliberations) …………………….1096
- (Replaying Testimony – Questions During Deliberations) …………………….1097
- (Right To Jury Trial) …………………….1100
- (Unanimous Verdict) …………………….1102
- (Special Verdict Forms) …………………….1103
- (Waiver of Right to Jury) …………………….1104
- JURY INSTRUCTIONS …………………….1105
- (Allen Charge) …………………….1105
- (Burden of Proof) …………………….1109
- (Defendant’s Failure To Testify) …………………….1110
- (DEFENDANT’S CREDIBILITY) …………………….1111
- (Defendant’s Theory or Defense) …………………….1112
- (Deliberate Ignorance) …………………….1118
- (Elements of the Offense or Defense) …………………….1124
- (Flight) …………………….1137
- (Good Faith)…………………….1138
- (Inconsistent Verdicts) …………………….1140
- (Intent / Willfulness) …………………….1141
- (Knowledge) …………………….1149
- (MISCELLANEOUS) …………………….1156
- (Missing Witness)…………………….1157
- (Presumptions) …………………….1158
- (Lesser Included Offenses) …………………….1159
- (Reasonable Doubt) …………………….1164
- (Recharge) …………………….1167
- (Sentence – Mandatory Minimums)…………………….1169
- (Special Interrogatories) …………………….1170
- (Spoliation) …………………….1171
- (Standard of Review) …………………….1172
- (Unanimity) …………………….1175
- (Witness Credibility)…………………….1177
- JURY SELECTION …………………….1178
- JUVENILE CASES …………………….1203
- KIDNAPPING …………………….1204
- LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSES …………………….1206
- MAIL FRAUD …………………….1207
- MAILING THREATENING COMMUNICATIONS …………………….1230
- MATERIALITY …………………….1231
- MERGER OF OFFENSES …………………….1236
- MISPRISION OF A FELONY …………………….1237
- MISTAKE OF FACT …………………….1238
- MISTAKE OF LAW …………………….1242
- MONEY LAUNDERING …………………….1246
- MURDER IN AID OF RACKETEERING …………………….1260
- MURDER / MANSLAUGHTER …………………….1261
- MURDER FOR HIRE …………………….1262
- NEW TRIAL / NEWLY DISCOVERED EVIDENCE …………………….1264
- OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE …………………….1269
- OPENING STATEMENT …………………….1280
- OPINION TESTIMONY …………………….1282
- PARALLEL PROCEEDINGS …………………….1283
- PERJURY …………………….1284
- PHOTOGRAPHS …………………….1288
- PLEA AGREEMENTS …………………….1289
- POLYGRAPHS …………………….1318
- PORNOGRAPHY ……………………1320
- POSSE COMITATUS ACT …………………….1328
- POST-ARREST SILENCE AND INVOCATION OF RIGHT TO COUNSEL …………………….1329
- PRIVILEGES …………………….1335
- PROBATION REVOCATION / SUPERVISED RELEASE …………………….1342
- PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT …………………….1344
- PUBLIC AUTHORITY DEFENSE …………………….1345
- PUBLIC TRIAL …………………….1346
- RAPE …………………….1351
- RE-OPENING EVIDENCE …………………….1352
- RICO …………………….1355
- ROBBERY …………………….1362
- SABOTAGE …………………….1363
- SEARCH AND SEIZURE …………………….1364
- (Abandonment) …………………….1364
- (Access to Warrant) …………………….1366
- (Administrative and Regulatory Searches) …………………….1367
- (Airport, Bus Station and Train Station Searches) …………………….1370
- (Anticipatory Warrant) …………………….1379
- (Appeal by Government) …………………….1380
- (Appellate Issues) …………………….1381
- (Arrest Warrants – Arrests in Homes) …………………….1382
- (Arrests – Good Faith) …………………….1386
- (Arrest – Material Witness Warrant) …………………….1388
- (Arrest – Pretext Arrests) …………………….1389
- (Arrest – Probable Cause) …………………….1390
- (Arrest – What Constitutes an Arrest?) …………………….1395
- (Attenuation) …………………….1399
- (Automobiles) …………………….1402
- (Border Searches) …………………….1413
- (Cell Phones) …………………….1417
- (COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE DOCTRINE) …………………….1420
- (Community Caretaking Function) …………………….1421
- (Computers)…………………….1423
- (Consent – Generally) …………………….1433
- (Consent — Product of Unlawful Detention, Entry, Prior Search, or Arrest) …………………….1444
- (Consent – Third Party Consent) …………………….1451
- (Curtilage) …………………….1460
- (DOGS) …………………….1463
- (Execution of Search Warrant) …………………….1465
- (Exigent Circumstances) …………………….1470
- (Expectation of Privacy) …………………….1482
- (Franks v. Delaware)…………………….1487
- (Fruits) …………………….1493
- (Good Faith / Leon) …………………….1500
- (GPS DEVICES and CELL SITE LOCATION INFORMATION) …………………….1516
- (Highway Stops) …………………….1519
- (Incident to Arrest) …………………….1539
- (Independent Source) …………………….1546
- (Inevitable Discovery) …………………….1548
- (Informants) …………………….1556
- (Inventory Searches – Impoundment) …………………….1559
- (Knock and Announce) …………………….1564
- (Neutral and Detached Magistrate) …………………….1567
- (Nexus between crime and place to be searched) …………………….1568
- (Particularity of Place to Be Searched) …………………….1573
- (Particularity of Things to be Seized) …………………….1575
- (Plain View) …………………….1581
- (Pre-Search Seizure) …………………….1586
- (Private Search) …………………….1589
- (Probable Cause) …………………….1594
- (Probationer / Parolee / Pretrial Release) …………………….1603
- (Return of Seized Property – Fed.R.Crim.P. 41(g))…………………….1606
- (Road Blocks) …………………….1609
- (Security Sweep) …………………….1611
- (Seizures) …………………….1616
- (Single Purpose Container Exception) …………………….1618
- (Staleness) …………………….1619
- (Standing) …………………….1621
- (STRIP SEARCHES) …………………….1629
- (Student Searches) …………………….1630
- (Terry Stop – Improper Frisk) …………………….1631
- (Terry Stop – Invalid Basis for Seizure) …………………….1638
- (Terry Stop – Prolonged Duration, or Improper Nature, of Seizure) …………………….1655
- (Terry Stop — What Constitutes a Seizure) …………………….1663
- (Unreasonable Searches) …………………….1672
- (Waiver of Motion to Suppress) …………………….1673
- (What Constitutes a Search) …………………….1674
- SECURITIES FRAUD …………………….1680
- SELECTIVE PROSECUTION …………………….1683
- SELF DEFENSE …………………….1684
- SEQUESTRATION …………………….1685
- SEVERANCE …………………….1686
- SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND NOTIFICATION ACT …………………….1695
- SEX TOURISM …………………….1697
- SPEECH OR DEBATE CLAUSE …………………….1698
- SPEEDY TRIAL …………………….1699
- STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS …………………….1715
- STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION …………………….1721
- SUBPOENAS …………………….1724
- TAPES AND TRANSCRIPTS…………………….1725
- TAX OFFENSES …………………….1726
- TELECOMMUNICATIONS, ALTERING EQUIPMENT …………………….1731
- TELEPHONE HARASSMENT …………………….1732
- THEFT OFFENSES …………………….1733
- THREATENING THE PRESIDENT …………………….1736
- THREATENING COMMUNICATIONS …………………….1737
- TRANSACTIONAL IMMUNITY …………………….1738
- TRAVEL ACT …………………….1739
- TRANSCRIPTS …………………….1741
- VENUE …………………….1743
- VERDICT FORM …………………….1747
- VIENNA CONVENTION …………………….1749
- VIOLENCE IN AID OF RACKETEERING …………………….1750
- WILDLIFE OFFENSES (LACEY ACT) …………………….1751
- WIRETAP EVIDENCE …………………….1752
- WIRETAP OFFENSES (18 U.S.C. § 2511)…………………….1758
- WITNESSES …………………….1759
- (Access to Government Witnesses) …………………….1759
- (Attorneys) …………………….1761
- (Bolstering / Vouching) …………………….1762
- (Competence of Witness) …………………….1767
- (Exclusion of Witness Whose Testimony Was Coerced) …………………….1768
- (Invoking Fifth Amendment)…………………….1769
- (Prosecutor) …………………….1770
- (Prosecutor or Judge Threatening Defense Witnesses) …………………….1771
- (Threat Evidence) …………………….1774
- WORK PRODUCT …………………….1775