Supreme Court· 4/19/1995

Kyles v. Whitley

Citations

514 U.S. 419
115 S. Ct. 1555
131 L. Ed. 2d 490
1995 U.S. LEXIS 2845

How courts have described this case

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acknowledging that \the Constitution is not violated every time the government fails or chooses not to disclose evidence that might prove helpful to the defense\
stating that “materiality of withheld evidence is judged collectively, not item by item”
establishing a Brady violation requires “showing that the favorable evidence could reasonably be taken to put the whole case in such a different light as to undermine confidence in the verdict”
equating the prejudice inquiry under Strickland with the materiality inquiry under Brady
detectives’ knowledge of withheld documents imputed to prosecutor where detectives in question were the lead detectives on the case
an individual prosecutor has “a duty to learn of any favorable evidence known to the others acting on the government’s behalf in the case, including the police.”

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Judges: Souter, Stevens, O'Connor, Ginsburg, Breyer, Scalia, Rehnquist, Kennedy, Thomas

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