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What is pending ADR?
alternative dispute resolution
What is the Brady list for police?
A Brady list is kept by some law enforcement agencies to track officers that the agency has identified as having exculpatory or impeachment information in their personnel files to help administer disclosure to prosecutors.
What is a Rule 16 discovery request?
Rule 16 is revised to give greater discovery to both the prosecution and the defense. Subdivision (a) deals with disclosure of evidence by the government. The draft provides for a right of prosecution discovery independent of any prior request for discovery by the defendant.
What is a Rule 16?
The purpose of Rule 16, in layman’s terms, establishes the powers and responsibilities of the court, as it relates to discovery. Rule 16 first lays out the reasons for a Pretrial Conference. Some of the order’s subjects cover limiting the time to join parties, amend pleadings, complete discovery, and file motions.
What is a discovery violation?
Sometimes intentionally, sometimes inadvertently, the Office of the State Attorney and its prosecutors will fail to provide discovery (evidence that it intends to use at trial), to the defense. When this occurs, we have a discovery violation.
What happens at a discovery hearing?
This is the formal process of exchanging information between the parties about the witnesses and evidence they’ll present at trial. Discovery enables the parties to know before the trial begins what evidence may be presented. Depositions enable a party to know in advance what a witness will say at the trial.
What kind of evidence tends to prove a defendant’s innocence?
Exculpatory evidence is any reasonable evidence that tends to show the defendant’s innocence. The rule is that all exculpatory evidence discovered by the prosecutor, investigators or law enforcement must be turned over to the defendant or his or her attorney, based on the defendant’s right to due process.