Not only, as the adage says, does crime not pay -- it just got a little more expensive. A federal judge has upheld the Philadelphia U.S. Attorney's office's new policy of charging criminal defendants for copies of documents exchanged in discovery, saying it complies with the rules of criminal procedure and a seminal 1963 U.S. Supreme Court ruling. The judge found that the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure require only that prosecutors make documents "available for inspection, copying or photographing."
April 03, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Not only, as the adage says, does crime not pay — it just got a little more expensive.
Until recently, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia was generous with criminal defendants — most often providing them with free copies of documents exchanged in discovery, and demanding payment only in complex cases that involved thousands of documents.
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