---
title: "Check an expert draft for the items a disclosure must contain"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/criminal-law/prepare-a-queensland-expert-report-checklist-for-gen-ai-use/united-states"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A20-B1-2-US"
practice_area: "Criminal Law"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["US"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-22"
---

# Check an expert draft for the items a disclosure must contain

> Mark present or absent: opinions, bases, qualifications, a publications list, and a list of other testimony. Do not rewrite the draft and do not say it complies.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/practice/criminal-law/prepare-a-queensland-expert-report-checklist-for-gen-ai-use/united-states  
Last reviewed: 2026-10-22

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## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Practice area | [Criminal Law](https://ailawframework.com/practice/criminal-law.md) |
| Human involvement | Yellow: Lawyer and AI draft together |
| How AI is used | Mark present or absent: opinions, bases, qualifications, a publications list, and a list of other testimony. Do not rewrite the draft and do not say it complies. |
| What the lawyer must review | You decide whether the draft can be used. For a government expert, Rule 16(a)(1)(G)(iii) requires those items: opinions the government will elicit, bases and reasons, qualifications including publications authored in the previous 10 years, and other cases in the previous 4 years in which the witness testified as an expert at trial or by deposition. The government's time comes from an order or a local rule. The defense disclosure provision was not set out here. Formal Opinion 512 applies before the draft goes into a tool. A generated passage is not an opinion of the witness until the witness adopts it. |
| Written for | United States |
| Applies to | [Prepare a Queensland expert report checklist for Gen AI use](https://ailawframework.com/practice/criminal-law/prepare-a-queensland-expert-report-checklist-for-gen-ai-use.md) |

## Checking plan

- What the AI does: Mark present or absent: opinions, bases, qualifications, a publications list, and a list of other testimony. Do not rewrite the draft and do not say it complies.
- Basis: Checked against the linked sources on 22 October 2026. Confirm the current instrument before reliance.

## Notes

- Do not sign for the witness. Rule 16(a)(1)(G)(v) requires the witness's approval and signature unless the government explains why it could not obtain them.
- Local time limits were not opened.

## Sources

- [Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 16](https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_16) (checked 2026-10-22)
- [ABA Formal Opinion 512, Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools (29 July 2024)](https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/professional_responsibility/ethics-opinions/aba-formal-opinion-512.pdf) (checked 2026-10-22)
- [ABA Model Rule 3.3, Candor Toward the Tribunal](https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibility/publications/model_rules_of_professional_conduct/rule_3_3_candor_toward_the_tribunal/) (checked 2026-10-22)

## Forms and precedents for this task

| Form or precedent | Kind | AI level | Summary |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Queensland Supreme Court criminal expert report: generative AI items](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/criminal-law/qld-criminal-expert-genai.md) | Checklist | Yellow | Checklist for an expert report in a Queensland Supreme Court criminal proceeding under amended Practice Direction 14 of 2024.… |

Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*