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An attorney can't afford to pay for professional services to search & retrieve required documents for civil & criminal proceedings, what happens next?
If an attorney in the US is being required to produce substantial but selected legal records and documents for a mix of criminal and civil litigations against the attorney, and these documents are ...
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Discovery of Evidence - Context, Significance and Meaning?
(In US criminal proceedings) The Prosecution must provide all evidence against the Defendant to the Defense before the trial begins in the "Discovery process".
Is the Prosecution also ...
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What are the Defense / Prosecution required to share with each other?
If the prosecution has their hands on some choice evidence that can be used as a "gotcha" against the defense and catch them off guard, are they allowed to do that? Or are the prosecution ...
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Family sue police over existence of body camera footage
The media indicates:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-breonna-taylors-family-sue-police-existence-body/story?id=78753109&cid=clicksource_4380645_1_heads_hero_live_hero_hed
The lawsuit, filed in ...
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Can a defendant in a child pornography case get access to the actual material as evidence in California?
I am engaged in a semi-civil discussion regarding a recent case about a person in California who is accused of being in possession of child pornography. The person on the other side is of the opinion ...
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How do plaintiffs get emails relating to companies they are suing?
For example in the case of IBM getting sued over age discrimination, the plaintiff somehow got emails showing that upper management instructed his director manager not to transfer him but to fire him. ...
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Personal, Subpoena'd Information that's Exculpatory is 'Missing'
If information is acquired by a prosecutor that is potentially exculpatory but misplaced, what should a defense attorney do, and what (beyond admonishment) would a judge ordinarily do?
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