Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, Inc. v. Commissioner of the Department of Developmental Services

How courts have described this case

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• Determining that the witness withheld by the prosecution was merely an early lead that the police abandoned when eyewitnesses were found
• noting that claims of Brady violations are “cognizable in a post- conviction application for writ of habeas corpus”
• listing suppression of evidence as one element of a Brady claim
• noting that to establish a Brady violation, a plaintiff must prove that (1) the evidence in question was favorable to the defendant in a criminal proceeding; (2) the evidence was material to the defense; and (3) the prosecution possessed the evidence and failed to disclose it
• “We know of no constitutional requirement that the prosecution make a complete and detailed accounting to the defense of all police investigatory work on a case”
• misidentification of defendant by prosecution witness on an earlier occasion, and diagram of murder scene showing poor vantage point of eyewitness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).