US · guidance
Justice Manual § 6-4.249
Return of Reports and Exhibits
After obtaining both a final judgment from the trial court and a final appellate decision, the United States Attorney’s Office should take the following actions:
Retain grand jury materials under secure conditions, in accordance with the requirements of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e) for maintaining the secrecy of grand jury material;
Return all exhibits and other materials that the Government obtained from witnesses; and
Return to the SAC, by certified mail, return receipt requested, all non-grand jury reports, exhibits, and other materials that the IRS furnished for use in the investigation or trial.
History
[updated February 2018]
Provenance
- Source
- justice.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-20
- Edition
- jm-2026-09-20
- Content hash
fa1e95993b8f678315a7b4cb2f955ee3fc1fffdb349b86c5e87f591e2bd48788
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.