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  2. Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure - Wikipedia

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    Congress also enacted some specific federal rules, beginning in 1790 with provisions included in the first U.S. federal criminal statutes. [2] The result was an incomplete patchwork of state and federal law that the Supreme Court and the lower federal courts did little to fill in, despite seeming authorization under the Judiciary Act to do so. [3]

  3. Jencks Act - Wikipedia

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    By the Act, Congress exercised its power to define the rules that should govern this particular area in the trial of criminal cases instead of leaving the matter of lawmaking to the courts. [6] The Act, and not the Supreme Court decision in the Jencks case, governs the production of statements of government witnesses in a federal criminal trial ...

  4. Threatening government officials of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Threatening federal officials' family members is also a federal crime; in enacting the law, the Committee on the Judiciary stated that "Clearly it is a proper Federal function to respond to terrorists and other criminals who seek to influence the making of Federal policies and interfere with the administration of justice by attacking close ...

  5. United States criminal procedure - Wikipedia

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    The United States Constitution, including the United States Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments, contains the following provisions regarding criminal procedure. Due to the incorporation of the Bill of Rights, all of these provisions apply equally to criminal proceedings in state courts, with the exception of the Grand Jury Clause of the Fifth Amendment, the Vicinage Clause of the Sixth ...

  6. Bill of particulars - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure provide in rule 7(f) that "the court may direct the government to file a bill of particulars".. In U.S. state law, the bill of particulars was abolished in nearly all court systems in the 1940s and 1950s due to the widespread recognition that much of the information requested could be obtained more efficiently through the discovery process.

  7. Trump hush money judge delays ruling on immunity following ...

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    NEW YORK (Reuters) -The judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money case has put off ruling on whether the president-elect's conviction should be thrown out on immunity grounds, enabling ...

  8. Federal Rules Decisions - Wikipedia

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    Federal Rules Decisions is a case law reporter in the United States that is published by West Publishing as part of the National Reporter System. [1] The Federal Rules Decisions series publishes decisions of the United States district courts involving the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, and Federal Rules of Evidence ...

  9. Moore's Federal Practice - Wikipedia

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    Moore's Federal Practice is an American legal treatise covering the Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, and Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure. [1]