Leshannon Jerome Shelly v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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

• holding Brecht applied because “the more .lenient Giglio materiality standard leaves room for the possibility that perjured testimony may be material under Giglio but still be harmless under Brecht”
• noting that Giglio claims involve “prosecutorial misconduct and a corruption of the truth-seeking function of the trial”
• noting that AEDPA \imposes a highly deferential standard for evaluating state-court rulings and demands that state-court decisions be given the benefit of the doubt\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• describing Giglio as “more defense-friendly” than Brady because under Giglio a defendant “has the lighter burden of showing that there is any reasonable likelihood that the false testimony could have affected the jury’s judgment” (internal quotation mark omitted)
• “If, when all is said and done, the [court’s] conviction is sure that the error did not influence the jury, or had but very slight effect, the verdict and the judgment should stand . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).