Trammell v. McKune

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that suppressed evidence may have been used to support defense theory that another person committed the offense
• explaining that suppressed evidence could also have been used to east doubt on police officers’ decision to focus their investigation on habeas petitioner, rather than another potential suspect
• “We need to be convinced only that the government’s evidentiary suppression undermines confidence in the outcome of the trial.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “AEDPA’s deferential standard does not apply if the state court employed the wrong legal standard in deciding the merits of the federal issue.” (quotation omitted)
• “We need to be convinced only that ‘the government’s evidentiary suppression undermines confidence in the outcome of the trial.’ ” (quoting Kyles v. Whitley, 514 U.S. 419, 434, 115 S.Ct. 1555, 131 L.Ed.2d 490 (1995))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).