Browning v. Trammell

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that suppressed mental-health records were material because they could have been used to attack a key witness’s credibility
• confining Brady analysis “to the record before the state trial court”
• psychiatric evaluations that 9 For the current opinion, go to https://www.lexisnexis.com/clients/wareports/. In re Pers. Restraint of Mulamba (Reuben Denis), No. 99403-0 (Gordon McCloud, J., dissenting
• “No direct evidence besides [the witness’s] testimony connected Browning to the crime. The State’s case therefore stood or fell largely on [the witness’s] eyewitness testimony and its credibility.”
• “Brady evidence need not prove a defendant’s innocence. Rather, the evidence need only put the whole case in such a different light as to undermine confidence in the verdict.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).