Commonwealth v. Gallarelli

How courts have described this case

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• declining to adopt one single test for materiality that covers “no request,” “general request,” and “specific request” cases of prosecutorial failure to disclose exculpatory evidence, and adhering to “the more prudent safeguards of defendants’ rights” found in State law decisions
• request for all exculpatory material combined with more specific requests for police reports held to be a specific request
• pretrial agreement for production of “scientific reports” was “specific request” covering laboratory report of test performed on defendant’s knife
• prosecutor responsible for police loss of evidence even if he was unaware of it
• prosecutor responsible for police loss of evidence even if he was unaware of it
• police report confirmed no trace of blood found on knife seized from defendant upon arrest for stabbing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).