Washington v. Napolitano

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the FBI’s knowledge of favorable evidence could be imputed to state prosecutors
• reversing lower court’s grant of new trial, finding Lykus’s “effort to minimize the vast body of circumstantial evidence as ‘equivocal at best,’ . . . totally unpersuasive,” including CBLA testimony
• where motion judge was not trial judge and took no evidence, review on appeal is de novo
• “[In] deciding] whether the new evidence probably would have been a real factor in the jury’s deliberations, ... the judge must consider the strength of the case against the defendant”
• evidence cumulative of that \admitted at the trial will carry little weight\
• nondisclosure does not warrant new trial where case against defendant overwhelming

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).