Where can I download the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and the Penal Code?

As I mentioned in the subject line, I’m trying to track down where I can find copies of these, and I was wondering if anyone here happens to have them in PDF or Word format? If you do, would you mind uploading them? I need them for work, so it would be incredibly convenient to have them saved as documents right on my smartphone for quick access.

Most laws in the USA, just like everywhere else, are totally public and available online if you know where to look. 🙂

It’s really just a matter of learning how to search for what you actually need. I guess if you just type "Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure" into a search engine, you'll get plenty of links right away.
https://www.google.com/search?q=kazn...=kazneni+zakon

On a site like Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute, you can find most statutes (though maybe not every single tiny regulation or local ordinance), but honestly, copying text from there can be a bit of a pain sometimes.

If you want the official stuff, you’d go to the Federal Register, specifically govinfo.gov, which is where laws are officially published for the record.

The biggest headache with the Federal Register is that the navigation is just... well, it's a disaster. Sites like Cornell have everything updated and organized, but the official government sites often aren't. It means if a specific law has been amended, say, thirty different times, you might have to hunt down every single one of those individual updates on separate, unlinked pages that have nothing to do with the main text. You end up with one section canceling out another, then a third section overriding both of them, so at the end of the day, the official registry is almost impossible to use unless you have infinite patience. On a curated legal site, everything is consolidated and updated in one place.

It’s kind of funny, really—a private educational resource is often much more user-friendly than the official government publication, which is supposed to be the gold standard but feels like a total nightmare to navigate.

Basically, I have huge respect for the admins over at sites like Cornell 🙏 because without them, we'd all be stuck using official government databases that are just frustrating and a massive waste of time.