Malcolm Muhammad v. L. Fleming

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• recognizing that while prosecution has duty to disclose exculpatory information in its or its agents’ possession, duty does not require making “defense-directed inquiries of independent witnesses, including complainants”
• vacating Superior Court order directing prosecutor to question complainant regarding mental health treatment
• excluding complainants and independent witnesses unaffiliated with investigation from prosecution team
• although a prosecutor “cannot inhibit access to a witness ... [a] prosecutor has no duty to help the defendant generate information from an independent witness”
• prosecutors’ duty to disclose extends to information in their possession or in possession of persons subject to their control
• prosecutor under no duty to seek and disclose information relating to rape complainant’s mental health treatment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).