EFTA Document EFTA01480567

Confidential Due Diligence Report 6 Defense attorney Marc Shiner said defense attorneys sometimes put off overtly conducting discovery - deposing witnesses, requesting documents and the like -- because doing so creates more work for harried prosecutors who may become angry and not offer a plea deal. "Sometimes defense lawyers, knowing that, will try and do discovery without taking depositions," said Shiner, a former prosecutor for 13 years. Instead, they may conduct a below-the-radar probe