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· 3/10/1999

Wright v. Hopper

Citations

  • 169 F.3d 695
  • 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 3746
  • 1999 WL 125557

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that inadmissible evidence can still be admissible but “[a] court cannot speculate as to what evidence the defense might have found if the information had been disclosed”
  • finding that where testimony was neither suppressed nor material there was no Brady violation
  • “Wright provides the court with no explanation or evidence to establish cause and prejudice. Accordingly, the remaining claims of ineffective assistance of counsel are barred from federal habeas review.”
  • alterations added; quoting McCoy v. Newsome, 953 F.2d 1252, 1258 (11th Cir. 1992)
  • no Brady violation where material was publicly available

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Birch, Dubina, Barkett

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