ALONZO R. VAUGHN and CARL S. MORTON v. UNITED STATES

How courts have described this case

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• holding that meeting with a defendant “several times prior to trial” and “conduct[ing] mock cross-examinations” is “well within the range of reasonable attorney performance”
• holding that the failure to disclose a corrections officer’s “track record for untruthfulness” warranted a new trial
• stating that prosecutors “have an obligation under Brady to assist the defense in making its case”
• “[I]impeaching information does not have a lesser standing in the context of the government’s Brady disclosure obligations.”
• questioning but not deciding whether any loss of consciousness, however brief, could amount to the requisite serious bodily injury to sustain an aggravated assault conviction
• “No less than exculpatory information, the defense is entitled to make thoughtful, effective use of impeaching information in the preparation of its case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).