Gonnella v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the defendant could not have obtained the suppressed part of the witness’s plea agreement when it was not in the public record at the time of trial
• “it is the deprivation of [a defendant’s] ability to fully cross-examine [the witness] based upon the [undisclosed evidence] that constitutes the denial of due process”
• “it is the deprivation of [a defendant’s] ability to fully cross-examine [the witness] based upon the [undisclosed evidence] that constitutes the denial of due process”
• “By failing to provide Gonnella with a crucial detail regarding [the witness’s] plea agreement, the State deprived Gonnella of the ability to impeach [the witness] by demonstrating a motive for him to lie[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).