Here is an interesting read – a fully searchable copy of the United States Attorneys’ Manual. The document is available and has been posted under a standing Freedom of Information Act request. Learn about how the Department of Justice prosecutes cases by reviewing the Prosecutor’s Handbook, also known as The United States Attorneys’ Manual. Here are the guidelines used for indicting and prosecuting cases in Federal Court – Criminal Division Manual.

This is the same manual that is used in the Middle District of Florida. Here are a few interesting provisions dealing with how the Feds take property from citizens using Asset Forfeiture. Here is the prosecutor’s bible known as the United States Attorneys’ Manual.

Federal Criminal Prosecutions are up for 2012 in the Middle District of Florida says a United States Department of Justice report. USDOJ national statistics reveal in 2012, there were 84,307 criminal filings in the nation. In the Middle District of Florida for 2012 there were 1,505 Filings and 2011 had 1,290 filings.

Sadly, drug cases, including marijuana, remained by far the largest category with 593 of the 1505 total (39%) cases. The next largest number of case filings – Immigration (241 cases) (16%) , then Fraud offenses right behind it at 227 (15%) ; Firearms (Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms – ATF) Gun cases were next at 171 filings (11%). In the 11th Circuit there were 2,064 criminal appeals filed in 2012 compared to 1,433 filed in 2011.