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Why is Civil Discovery More Sophisticated than Criminal Discovery?

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Tor Ekeland
Dec 25, 2022
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Coming from Big Law, my first encounter with federal criminal discovery shocked me. Discovery is the pretrial exchange of evidence between the parties. My Big Law work was mostly civil. In civil discovery, you get depositions and get to go on fishing expeditions. In criminal discovery, you rarely get depositions and can’t go on fishing expeditions. The…

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