United States v. Paul Wilbert Sutton, United States of America v. Jesse Thomas Lee, United States of America v. Charles Sutton, Jr.

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• explaining that a new trial motion based on newly discovered evidence from a neutral source faces a heavier burden than a new trial motion based on a Brady violation
• reversing conviction for failure to disclose exculpatory 60 evidence despite prosecutor’s lack of knowledge because “legally what [the officer] knew must be imputed to the prosecutor” (citing Barbee, 331 F.2d at 846)
• imputing to federal prosecutors the knowledge and actions of an FBI agent working the same case
• \[T]he prosecution allowed a false impression to be created at trial when the truth would have directly impugned the veracity of its key witness.\
• imputing F.B.I. agent's knowledge to federal prosecutor for Brady purposes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).