The manual covers the entire law of evidence requests in criminal proceedings, analyzing relevant case law. It assists defense attorneys in identifying problems, avoiding mistakes, and correctly formulating evidence requests in this challenging and highly error-prone area of procedural law. After presenting the theoretical foundations, it discusses and distinguishes between suggestions for evidence, evidence gathering, conditional evidence requests, and evidence requests in the narrower sense. The goals, purposes, and timing of submitting requests, decisions on evidence requests, the systematics of rejection reasons, specifics regarding expert evidence, visual evidence, and foreign witnesses, as well as evidence requests according to § 245 in conjunction with § 220 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and the submission of evidence requests outside of the main hearing are thoroughly examined and clearly presented.