Local Rule 116.4: SPECIAL PROCEDURES FOR AUDIO AND VIDEO RECORDINGS

RULE 116.4 SPECIAL PROCEDURES FOR AUDIO AND VIDEO RECORDINGS

(a) Availability of Audio and Video Recordings

(1) The government must provide at least one copy of all audio and video recordings in its possession that are discoverable for examination and review by the defendant parties.

(2) If a defendant requests additional copies, the government must make arrangements to provide or to enable that defendant to make such copies at that defendant's expense.

(3) If in a multidefendant case any defendant is in custody, the government must insure that an extra copy of all audio and video recordings is available for review by the defendant(s) in custody.

(b) Composite Recordings, Preliminary Transcripts and Final Transcripts. The parties must make arrangements promptly to provide or make available for inspection and copying by opposing counsel all:

(1) Composite electronic surveillance or consensual interception recordings to be used in that party's case-in-chief at trial, once prepared.

(2) Preliminary transcripts, once prepared. A preliminary transcript may not be used at trial or in any hearing on a pretrial motion without the prior approval of the court based on a finding that the preliminary transcript is accurate in material respects and it is in the interests of the administration of justice to use it.

(3) Final transcripts, once prepared.

(4) Nothing in this rule shall be construed to require a party to prepare composite recordings, or preliminary or final transcripts, of any recording.

Adopted September 8, 1998; effective December 1, 1998; amended effective February 1, 2012.