United States v. Catalan Roman

OPINION FOLLOWING ORDER

PEREZ-GIMENEZ, District Judge.

Ruling from the bench on a government motion to compel capital defendants to disclose their penalty-phase experts, the Court held that such disclosure was essential to the government’s right of rebuttal under 18 U.S.C. § 3593(c) and pursuant to its inherent powers, ordered defendants to make immediate disclosure. (Docket No. 466, Tr. of 4/19/05 at 52) In granting the motion, the Court considered and discounted defendants’ arguments that they had eschewed reciprocal disclosure under Fed. R.Crim.P. Rule 16, and that in any event, Rule 16 is…