Steidl v. Fermon

How courts have described this case

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• concluding plaintiff was requesting same relief in access claim, compensatory and punitive dam- ages, that he would procure if he eventually prevailed on his underlying false imprisonment and Monell claims
• explaining that a “Brady violation occurs when the government fails to disclose evidence materially favorable to the accused . . . even evidence that is known only to police investigators,” (citation omitted), and that “[p]olice officers have a duty to disclose under Brady”
• “It is not likely that the police may take shelter behind a prosecutor who is conspiring with them to fabricate false evidence against innocent suspects.”
• “The Supreme Court considers it . . . well established that the duty to disclose is one held by the state or government as a whole.”
• “[P]olice must disclose exculpatory evidence to a ‘competent authority.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).