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Federal Discovery: A Survey Of Local Rules And Practices In View Of Proposed Changes To The Federal Rules, Sherman L. Cohn
Federal Discovery: A Survey Of Local Rules And Practices In View Of Proposed Changes To The Federal Rules, Sherman L. Cohn
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Traditionally, except for the limited role played by pleadings and bills of particulars, the attorney in a law court did not disclose evidentiary matters until trial. "A judicial proceeding was a battle of wits rather than a search for the truth,"' and thus, each side was protected to a large extent against disclosure of his case until counsel chose to disclose it at trial. This philosophy changed some forty years ago with the introduction of discovery in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. In the words of Mr. Justice Murphy, the discovery rules meant that "civil trials in the federal …
Multiple Representation And Conflicts Of Interest In Criminal Cases, Peter W. Tague
Multiple Representation And Conflicts Of Interest In Criminal Cases, Peter W. Tague
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Conflicts of interest resulting from multiple representation in criminal cases impose heavy burdens on all the participants in the criminal justice system. Although the Supreme Court in Holloway v. Arkansas refused to hold that joint representation is unconstitutional per se, it recently approved Proposed Rule of Criminal Procedure 44(c), which would require trial courts to protect a defendant's right to counsel in this situation. After discussing the current approaches of the courts to the problems presented by joint representation, Professor Tague analyzes the proposed rule. He criticizes the proposed rule for its failure to define the role of the trial …