Robert Morgan v. Dominick Salamack, Edgecomb Correctional Facility, and Robert Abrams, Attorney General for the State of New York

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the government is not required to disclose evidence it does not possess or of which it is not aware
• “[Existing case law clearly reflects that the touchstone of the inquiry ... is principally.whether the prosecutor’s office ‘possessed’ the information in question at the time of the trial.”
• “Clearly the government cannot be required to produce that which it does not control and it never possessed or inspected.” (citation omitted)
• no obligation to seek out impeachment evidence for prosecution witness when evidence is not probative of defendant’s innocence, not in prosecutor’s file and not in possession of prosecutor’s office

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).