Wood v. Bartholomew

How courts have described this case

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• finding that evidence that is inadmissible under state law is not material for purposes of establishing a Brady violation
• finding that polygraph results could not be considered Brady material when those results would not have been admissible under state law
• finding that polygraph results were not evidence for Brady purposes because they were inadmissible under state law
• holding evidence \material\ under Brady only where there exists reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed, the result of trial would have been different
• noting that federal courts should not grant “habeas relief on the basis of little more than speculation with slight support”
• stating that a federal court may not grant habeas relief “on the basis of little more than speculation with slight support.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).