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In U.S. criminal law, a proffer agreement, proffer letter, proffer, or "Queen for a Day" letter is a written agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant or prospective witness that allows the defendant or witness to give the prosecutor information about an alleged crime, while limiting the prosecutor's ability to use that information against him or her.
Search incident to a lawful arrest, commonly known as search incident to arrest (SITA) or the Chimel rule (from Chimel v.California), is a U.S. legal principle that allows police to perform a warrantless search of an arrested person, and the area within the arrestee’s immediate control, in the interest of officer safety, the prevention of escape, and the preservation of evidence.
Instead, the US court would issue a letter rogatory to a French court, which would then examine Jean in France, and send a deposition back to the requesting court. Insofar as requests to US courts are concerned, the use of letters rogatory for requesting the taking of evidence has been replaced in large part by applications under 28 USC 1782 ...
A legal hold is a process that an organization uses to preserve all forms of potentially relevant information when litigation is pending or reasonably anticipated. [1] It is often issued when an organization receives a request for production in pending litigation.
A letter sent last month from the town of Hope Mills to former Police Maj. Bradley Rountree informed Rountree that he was terminated for allegedly removing items from evidence, according to a copy ...
The preservation of evidence is key to investigation and future prosecution of the perpetrator. While empathizing with and maintaining respect for the victim, make every attempt to: [4] Do not cut through any clothing or throw away anything from the scene. Place bloodstained (or soiled) clothing into a separate paper (not plastic) bag.
The Republican chairman of the House subcommittee examining last year's Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection hearings said last week that some of the evidence gathered for the inquiry wasn't preserved.
Under article 13, (a) the documents establishing the execution of the letter of request are to be sent by the requested authority (the recipient of the letter of request) to the requesting authority by the same channel that was used by the requesting authority, and (b) whenever the letter of request is not executed (in whole or in part), the ...