Discovery and Expert Assistants

Overview of discovery and expert assistants:

• Appointment and Production of Expert Assistants and Witnesses
  • Expert Assistance
  • Expert Witnesses
• Conclusion and Practice Tips
  • Discovery and trial advocacy
• Defense Discovery Responsibilities and Requests
  • Defense requests
  • Disclosures or notices made upon government request (not based on reciprocity)
  • Mandatory disclosure or notice requirements for defense counsel
  • Practice tips
• General
• Government Discovery Responsibilities and Requests
  • Disclosures and notices made upon defense request
  • Government requests
  • Mandatory disclosure or notice requirements for trial counsel
• Introduction
  • Discovery basics
  • How to use this outline
  • Production basics
• Production
  • Duty to preserve evidence
  • Enforcement
  • General
  • Procedures
  • Production standards for the defense
  • Production standards for the prosecution
  • Regulation of production
• References
• Regulation of Discovery
  • Discovery
  • Pretrial orders
  • Protective and modifying orders
  • Remedies for Nondisclosure