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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

The weekly edition’s is here. Leading of this edition is the Tenth Circuit’s decision in Yancy Lyndell Douglas & Paris LaPriest Powell v. Workman.  The panel in Douglas/Powell examines a fairly audacious Brady/Napu/Giglio violation.  As one observer noted “[t]o make a long story short, it eventually came out that [witness] Smith had told [prosecutor] Miller early on that he could not identify the occupants of the car, but would identify Douglas and Powell in exchange for help in a pending drug case, which he got after Douglas?s trial (the first one) was over. Smith later leveraged the fact that Miller knew his testimony was false but presented it anyway to get Miller to intervene every time he got in trouble with the law again, which happened numerous times before Powell?s trial...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 30, 2009 (boomark / email).