United States v. Almohandis

OPINION 1 ON MOTION FOR PRODUCTION OF NOTES OF DEFENDANT’S STATEMENTS (#28)

COLLINGS, United States Magistrate Judge.

Defendant’s Motion for Production of Notes of Defendant’s Statements (#28) raises the issue of whether the defendant is entitled, under Rule 16(a) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, to production of the rough notes of agents who interviewed him. The defendant has been provided with the agents’ formal reports of the interviews which, presumably, were written after the interviews and based on the rough notes and the agents’ recollections.

The facts are that the defendant,…