Surviving
the Feds
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The journal

Every guide, by stage

Each guide answers one question, starts with the answer, and prints cleanly. The code tells you the stage.

Print this. Copy it. Mail it to someone inside. That’s what it’s for. Just don’t sell it.

How to mail it inside, and what the mailroom rejects

Every guide here is written by Bilal, to you, the way his books are. He was sentenced to 20 years in the federal system and wrote the Surviving the Feds series. His own story is The morning they came for me.

  1. 1AFederal Search Warrant: What to Do During the Search and After They LeaveAgents showed up · Prints on 8 pages · Not complete yet
  1. 2AMy Family Member Was Arrested by the Feds: What Happens NowArrest & release · Prints on 7 pages · Not complete yet
  2. 2BThe Federal Detention Hearing: Will They Come Home Before Trial?Arrest & release · Prints on 9 pages · Not complete yet
  1. 3AFederal Plea Deals: What You Are Really SigningCourt · Prints on 12 pages · Not complete yet
  2. 3BProffer Agreements and 5K1: What Cooperating Really MeansCourt · Prints on 8 pages · Not complete yet
  1. 4AThe Presentence Report: The Document That Shapes the SentenceSentencing · Prints on 13 pages · Not complete yet

Guides for this stage are being written. The stage page has the checklist and the deadlines now.

  1. 6AIneffective Assistance of Counsel: When a Lawyer’s Mistakes Can Undo a SentenceAlready sentenced · Prints on 11 pages · Not complete yet
  2. 6BThe 2255 Motion: How a Federal Sentence Gets ChallengedAlready sentenced · Prints on 12 pages · Not complete yet

Guides for this stage are being written. The stage page has the checklist and the deadlines now.

  1. LAIs My Federal Lawyer Any Good? How to Tell, and What to DoLawyers · Prints on 9 pages · Not complete yet
  2. LBFederal Public Defender, CJA Lawyer, or a Hired Lawyer?Lawyers · Prints on 7 pages · Not complete yet