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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

This week’s edition is now available: As one might expect this time of year, since the last edition there have been few notable opinions. Most notable is the Third Circuit’s opinion in Zachary Wilson v. Beard that upholds the district court’s grant of relief under Brady. In Wilson trial counsel for the Commonwealth failed to turn over large amounts of impeachment evidence. The suppressed materials later surfaced and dramatically undermined both the Commonwealth’s case and its chief witnesses against Wilson. As happens semi-regularly, a few opinions were missed last edition because they had not yet been uploaded to Lexis & Westlaw.  Two cases from the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals fall areespecially notable.  The CCA in David Dwayne Riley v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on December 28, 2009 (boomark / email).