State Ex Rel. Koster v. McElwain

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• holding that Brady prejudice was established where all evidence of reports of domestic violence by victim’s estranged husband had been suppressed by the State
• holding the defendant remained a charged suspect eligible for retrial and directing the State to retry 8 the defendant within 180 days of the appellate mandate or defendant was to be discharged from custody
• finding that habeas petitioner established Brady 6 prejudice “because all evidence suggesting that [the alleged alternative perpetrator] had a motive and an opportunity to murder [the victim] became admissible” once the alleged alternative perpetrator had been directly connected to the murder
• “[T]he sufficiency of the evidence to support the writ of habeas corpus as a whole is a question of law subject to certiorari review.”

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