Local Rule 116.9: PRESERVATION OF NOTES
D. Mass. — Criminal rule
RULE 116.9 PRESERVATION OF NOTES
(a) General Rule. All contemporaneous notes, memoranda, statements, reports, surveillance logs, recordings, and other documents (regardless of the medium in which they are stored) memorializing matters relevant to the charges contained in the indictment made by or in the custody of any law enforcement officer whose agency at the time was formally participating in an investigation intended, in whole or in part, to result in a federal indictment shall be preserved until the entry of judgment unless otherwise ordered by the court.
(b) Rough Drafts. These rules do not require the preservation of rough drafts of reports after a subsequent draft of final report is prepared.
(c) Established Retention Procedures. These rules do not require modification of a government agency's established procedure for the retention and disposal of documents when the agency does not reasonably anticipate a criminal prosecution.
Adopted September 8, 1998; effective December 1, 1998; amended effective February 1, 2012.