James Walker v. The City of New York

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “police satisfy their obligations under Brady when they turn exculpatory [or impeachment] evidence over to the prosecutors”
• holding that “the police satisfy their obligations under Brady when they turn exculpatory evidence over to the prosecutors”
• holding that failure by District Attorney to train Assistant District Attorneys on Brady obligations could support Monell liability where plaintiffs did not allege a history of disclosure violations
• holding that the obligation not to 25 commit perjury was so obvious that a failure to train or supervise would not have had an effect on 26 the officers’ ultimate decision to testify falsely
• holding that “a single act” could form the “basis of municipal liability . . . [s]o long as the single challenged act was the decision of a municipal policymaker” (citing Pembaur, 475 U.S. at 480
• recognizing that although Brady did not delineate the relative disclosure obligations of the police and the prosecution, subsequent cases “have suggested that the police satisfy their obligations under Brady when they turn exculpatory evidence over to the prosecutors”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).