In Re Sealed Case No. 99-3096(brady Obligations)

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• rejecting the State's argument that there was no Brady violation because information was available to the defense through \reasonable pre-trial preparation\
• prosecutor had duty to search his own files and police department files for witness cooperation agreements
• prosecutor had duty to search his own files and police department files for witness cooperation agreements
• Brady violated where prosecution admitted its failure to search for requested impeaching information that was not otherwise publicly available; Brady not violated regarding prior conviction records that were publicly available
• failure to disclose a cooperation agreement that included payments to a witness is Brady infonnation
• “Surely information obtained from a government-certified liar cannot substitute for information obtained from the government itself-particularly not when the defense was seeking information from a more trustworthy source in order to corroborate. . . .”

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