The 2024 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.
The 2024 Edition includes new coverage on the most recent amendment to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure:
New Rule 62 allows the Judicial Conference of the United States to declare a Criminal Rules emergency that eases requirements for the signing or consenting of a defendant by defense counsel or defense counsel affidavit, empaneling additional alternate jurors, extending time to correct or reduce a sentence under Rule 35, allowing the use of videoconferencing and teleconferencing if a defendant consents, and maintaining contemporaneous public access, if feasible.
Both 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.
As the federal courts adapt to the new normal of living in a Covid-19 environment and restart trying criminal cases, this Manual offers its users a chance to refresh themselves on the rules and how to use them in their practice.
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.
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.
