Banks v. Dretke, No. 02-8286 (U.S. Supreme Court) (540 U.S. 668; 124 S.Ct. 1256) (February 24, 2004) (Justice Ginsburg)
Here by a vote of 7 to 2, the Supreme Court overturned a Texas death sentence on the ground that the prosecution deliberately withheld evidence that would have made the jurors less likely to impose the death penalty had they been made aware of it.
In 1980, Delma Banks was ...
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