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u/cowperthwaite ยท 12 pointsr/Journalism
  1. You've chosen a terrible case if you're having this hard of a time, already, getting the documents.

  2. Until you're experienced, I would NEVER suggest choosing a federal case. The FBI rarely, if ever, talks, let alone to someone they don't know.

    A halfway decent book on the topic is How to Write and Sell True Crime by Gary Provost. I don't agree with everything he writes, but it's going to take you through the basic first steps you need to. It's also going to go through picking a case, which I think is really important in this instance.

    Link: https://www.amazon.com/How-Write-Sell-True-Crime-ebook/dp/B00FGFYFV4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1504826601&sr=8-2&keywords=true+crime+how+to

    So, I'm going to start with some basics, which have already been mentioned by the other posters.

  3. You need to get the case documents. (police)
  4. You need to get the court documents. (courts)
  5. You need to see if it's feasible to get the transcripts from the trial. (courts)

    So, here's the thing. The FBI is covered by FOIA and most, but not all, states have much better laws than FOIA that allow you to get these kinds of things easier and cheaper. This is why fed cases are so much harder, usually, than state cases.

    Record laws vary from state to state. Colorado has big exemptions for police records, as an example. Others don't.

    Those records will give you leads on who to contact.

    But the bigger issue is, maybe you should choose an easier case. Maybe you should find some easy, long-hanging fruit, so to speak, first.

    As others have said, this is likely best approached 2-3 years after sentencing.

    Maybe if you give us some specifics, we can point you in a better direction, or help with specific questions.

    But I'm going to double down on: you should find a different case.