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Supreme Court takes up Brady case for death row inmate (access required)

By: Kimberly Atkins
Staff writer
Published: November 8, 2011

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WASHINGTON – The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed sympathetic to an argument by a death row inmate that impeachment evidence withheld by prosecutors during his murder trial would have made a difference in his trial – and that the withholding constituted a Brady violation. Smith v. Cain concerns the murder prosecution of Juan ...
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