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Smith v. Cain, No. 10-8145 (U.S. Supreme Court) (565 U.S. 73; 132 S.Ct. 627) (January 10, 2012) (Justice (John G.) Roberts)

Loaded on Jan. 23, 2012 published in Punch and Jurists January 23, 2012
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Withholding of Exculpatory Evidence.

In this case, the Supreme Court reversed a first degree murder conviction after finding, by an 8-to-1 vote, that New Orleans prosecutors had withheld material exculpatory evidence in violation of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963). The majority’s opinion is also another stinging indictment of a pattern of prosecutorial ...

 

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