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Introduction

Jed S. Rakoff

November 20, 2017

Judge Jed S. Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.) introduces website materials that cover fingerprint identification and what judges should consider when considering and responding to challenges to the admissibility of fingerprint evidence and testimony.

Overview

November 20, 2017

A brief introduction to fingerprints: How fingerprint properties (uniqueness, consistency, and ridge pattern) make fingerprints a useful forensic tool. To go back to the main Fingerprint Identification page, click here.

Quality Assurance

November 20, 2017

This video covers the quality assurance programs implemented by the forensic laboratories throughout the country.

Summary

Jed S. Rakoff

November 20, 2017

Judge Jed S. Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.) summarizes the materials on this site about fingerprint identification and what judges should consider when weighing expert testimony. To go back to the main Fingerprint Identification page, click here.

Amendments to the Federal Rules of Practice and Procedure 2017—Transmittal to the Supreme Court

September 28, 2016

This package of materials was transmitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on September 28, 2016, concerning amendments to the Federal Rules of Practice and Procedure to become effective on December 1, 2017.

Amendments to the Federal Rules of Practice and Procedure: Civil Rules 2015

David G. Campbell, Gene E.K. Pratter, John G. Koeltl, Paul W. Grimm

December 1, 2015

Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties and Letters Rogatory: A Guide for Judges [SUPERSEDED]

T. Markus Funk

May 1, 2014

This publication has been superseded by Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties and Letters Rogatory: Obtaining Evidence and Assistance from Foreign Jurisdictions.

Survey of District Court Judges on a Proposed Amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(B) Concerning Prior Consistent Statements

Tim Reagan, Margaret S. Williams

March 2, 2012

This report was prepared for the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence. Under the current version of Fed. R. Evid.

Motions for Sanctions Based Upon Spoliation of Evidence in Civil Cases: Report to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules

Emery G. Lee

June 6, 2011

In 2010, the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules requested a study of motions for sanctions based on an allegation that the nonmoving party had destroyed evidence, especially electronically stored information (ESI).

A Summary of Responses to a National Survey of Rule 16 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and Disclosure Practices in Criminal Cases: Final Report to the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules

Laural L. Hooper, David E. Rauma, Marie Leary, Shelia Thorpe

February 1, 2011

The Center prepared this report at the request of the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules as it considers whether to amend Rule 16 to incorporate the government's constitutional obligation to provide exculpatory and impeachment evidence to the defense or, instead, to create a broader disclosure

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Evidence

Introduction

Overview

Quality Assurance

Summary

Amendments to the Federal Rules of Practice and Procedure 2017—Transmittal to the Supreme Court

Amendments to the Federal Rules of Practice and Procedure: Civil Rules 2015

Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties and Letters Rogatory: A Guide for Judges [SUPERSEDED]

Survey of District Court Judges on a Proposed Amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(B) Concerning Prior Consistent Statements

Motions for Sanctions Based Upon Spoliation of Evidence in Civil Cases: Report to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules

A Summary of Responses to a National Survey of Rule 16 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and Disclosure Practices in Criminal Cases: Final Report to the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules

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