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Federal Courts-Rule 20 Of Federal Rules Of Criminal Procedure-Constitutionality, William B. Harvey
Federal Courts-Rule 20 Of Federal Rules Of Criminal Procedure-Constitutionality, William B. Harvey
Michigan Law Review
One of the few real innovations in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is incorporated in Rule 20 which provides that a defendant who is arrested in a district other than that in which the indictment has been returned may declare in writing his desire to plead guilty and waive trial in the district of the crime. In this event, with the approval of the United States Attornies for both districts, the clerk of the court to which the indictment was returned is authorized to forward the papers to the clerk of the court for the district in which the …