Gunby v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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• holding that New Hampshire Constitution affords greater protection to criminal defendants and requires the State to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the undisclosed exculpatory evidence would not have affected the verdict
• holding that under the State Constitution, once the defendant shows that the prosecution \knowingly withheld\ exculpatory evidence, the burden shifts to the prosecution \to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the undisclosed evidence would not have affected the verdict\
• explaining that prosecutors are not required to “disclose everything that might influence a jury, or that the defendant be provided a complete discovery of all investigatory work or an examination of the State’s complete file”
• overturning a defendant’s murder conviction because the State failed to disclose certain employment records of a testifying detective that “reflect[ed] negatively on the detective’s character and credibility”
• overturning a defendant’s murder conviction because the State failed to disclose certain employment records of a testifying detective that “reflect[ed] negatively on the detective’s character and credibility”
• ordering new trial where prosecutor failed to turn over police officer personnel records

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).