Commonwealth v. Thiel

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• in which the Commonwealth failed to disclose tangible evidence to the defendant and then used the evidence to impeach the defendant’s testimony.
• prosecution required to disclose airplane ticket used in rebuttal to contradict defendant’s testimony regarding the name under which he flew from Florida to Pennsylvania
• “[W]e cannot expect the Commonwealth to anticipate the materiality of all possible rebuttal evidence[.]”
• “[W]e cannot expect the Commonwealth to anticipate the materiality of all possible rebuttal evidence[.]”
• new trial appropriate for surprise disclosure of inculpatory rebuttal evidence
• appropriate remedy is a continuance to enable defense counsel to investigate evidence and prepare the defense where prosecutor sought to admit two airplane tickets during rebuttal which had not previously been provided to defendant despite his pretrial discovery request

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).