Doan v. Carter

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the failure to disclose evidence known to the defense “cannot form the basis of a Brady violation”
• treating withheld prior inconsistent statement as cumulative where jury otherwise heard evidence of a witness’s 10 untruthful statements
• the jury’s guilty verdict is “surely unattributable” to the admission of the affidavit, even if it was inadmissible testimonial hearsay, because the affidavit was merely cumulative of other evidence admitted against defendant” (citation omitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).