Napue v. Illinois

How courts have described this case

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• holding that due process is violated when the government attains a conviction through perjured testimony
• holding that the use of false evidence against a criminal defendant violates due process and this principle is inherent in any concept of ordered liberty
• holding that a prosecutor’s failure to correct false testimony violates due process even when the testimony relates solely to a witness’s credibility
• holding that a prosecutor's failure to correct false testimony violates due process even when the testimony relates solely to a witness's credibility
• holding that “[t]he jury’s estimate of the truthfulness and reliability of a given witness may well be determinative of guilt or innocence”
• holding that some evidence of bias did not diminish value of other evidence of bias

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