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· 6/23/2009

Tennison v. City and County of San Francisco

Citations

  • 570 F.3d 1078
  • 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 13882
  • 2009 WL 1758711

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “Brady suppression occurs when the government 14 fails to turn over even evidence that is ‘known only to police 15 investigators and not to the prosecutor.’”
  • “[A] § 1983 plaintiff must show that police officers acted with deliberate indifference to or reckless disregard for an accused’s rights or for the truth in withholding evidence from prosecutors.”
  • Brady duty applies and police officers may be held liable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Hawkins, Tashima, Thomas

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