Federal Criminal Procedure Litigation Manual 2021

The 2021 Edition of the Federal Criminal Procedure Litigation Manual remains the most thorough, comprehensive, and ambitious analysis of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. As with prior editions, the Manual breaks each of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure down into its discrete parts and analyzes each part in detail. At various times the Manual offers Practice Tips to assist the user in making practical use of the Rules. The analysis of each Rule identifies related rules, relevant constitutional provisions, pertinent federal statutes, pertinent federal regulations, helpful secondary authorities and leading cases. It packs everything one needs to know about the Rules in a useable, concise one\-volume work.\n

\nBoth the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and the Advisory Committees on other Federal Rules are regularly considering amendments that recognize the importance of modern forms of communication and information storage and the mobility of both people and data. The Federal Criminal Procedure Litigation Manual follows proposed amendments closely and explains those that are approved and that are relevant to federal criminal cases. It keeps its users current and informed. For example, the Manual explains the amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) which took effect on December 1, 2020 and provides more guidance as to the notice that the government is required to provide a defendant. \n

\nMany federal criminal cases have been on hold for months as a result of the Covid\-19 pandemic. The Manual offers its users a chance to refresh themselves on the rules on how to use them when cases resume.

Stephen A. Saltzburg is the Wallace and Beverley Woodbury University Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School. Professor Saltzburg is a leading national expert on evidence and criminal procedure. His numerous writings include the FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE MANUAL, a six-volume treatise on the Federal Rules of Evidence. He is the former Reporter for, and member of, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Advisory Committee and a former member of the Federal Rules of Evidence Advisory Committee. He served as an American Bar Association representative to the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence during the “restyling” of the Rules. Before taking his current teaching position, he taught for many years at the University of Virginia and served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also served as an Ex-Officio Member of the United States Sentencing Commission and as the Director of the Tax Refund Fraud Task Force for the U.S. Treasury Department.

David A. Schlueter is the Hardy Professor of Law and Director of Advocacy Programs at St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas. Professor Schlueter teaches evidence, trial advocacy, and constitutional law and has served as both a criminal trial and appellate counsel. He has authored, co-authored, or edited thirteen books on procedure, advocacy, and evidence, including the two-volume work, FEDERAL EVIDENCE TACTICS. Before joining the faculty at St. Mary’s in 1983, he served on active duty as an Army JAGC and for two years as legal counsel for the Supreme Court of the United States. He is a Fellow in the American Law Institute and a Life Fellow in the American Bar Foundation. From 1988 until 2005, he served as the Reporter for the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Advisory Committee.

Jonathan K. Gitlen is a Professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University Law School. He served for two years as the Director of the National Inventory of Collateral Consequences of Conviction (NICCC) for the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section. He has authored several articles on collateral consequences and been recognized as a leader in the field. Professor Gitlen served as the lead attorney on behalf of the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section in Clemency Project 2014 and represented 50 clemency applicants, obtaining relief for twelve. Professor Gitlen serves as an advisor to the Criminal Justice Section in its effort to improve online access to its Criminal Justice Standards, and represents clients in civil and criminal matters.