United States v. Xavier Brooks

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the prosecution must search files of other branches of government if they are “closely aligned with the prosecution” or have a “close working relationship”
• explaining that more than mere speculation is required to trigger government’s duty to search files
• noting that \prosecutor's own interest in avoiding surprise at trial gives him a very considerable incentive to search accessible files\
• observing that “the prosecutor’s own interest in avoiding surprise at trial gives him a very considerable incentive to search accessible files for possibly exculpatory evidence, quite independent of Brady ”
• holding federal prosecutor had duty to review personnel file of police officer who had been a key witness “[g]iven the close working relationship between the Washington metropolitan police and the U.S. Attorney”
• noting that cases \sensibly warn against reliance on utter speculation\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).