Akrawi v. Booker

How courts have described this case

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• holding that there is only a Brady violation if the prosecutor provides some assurance or promise of favorable treatment prior to the witness’s testimony and such a tacit agreement is not disclosed
• explaining that AEDPA’s one-year limitations period “effectively bars relief absent a showing that the petition’s untimeliness should be excused based on equitable tolling and actual innocence”
• finding that defense counsel’s cross examination might have been “more effective if evidence if the mutual understanding had been disclosed prior to trial, but only incrementally so”
• “Yet, for the reasons that follow, we conclude ... that even if the merits of the petition were considered, the result would be the same: Akrawi is not entitled to habeas relief.”
• “Yet, for the reasons that follow, we conclude . . . that even if the merits of the petition were considered, the result would be the same: Akrawi is not entitled to habeas relief.”
• “The subject statement must be indisputably false rather than merely misleading.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).