Harrington v. Washington

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “[i]n evaluating a probable cause determination based on a confidential witness’s report,” a court must also consider “whether the informant appeared or testified before the magistrate”
• “While there are good arguments on each side of the debate, the fact that the law is unsettled itself prevents any discovery violation from being plain error.”
• Brady violations require only a “reasonable probability” of a different outcome to be actionable
• unsettled nature of legal question prevents any error from amounting to plain error
• to prove a Brady violation, defendant must show favorable evidence was suppressed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).