249 So. 2d 47 - State v. Pitts’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
July 1979
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Brady v. United States · McMann v. Richardson · Parker v. North Carolina · 241 So. 2d 399 - State v. Pitts
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““Recognizing that the suppressed statement did not directly relate to the defendant Freddie Pitts, the argumentation contained in the Attorney General’s memorandum brief before the Supreme Court contends that he too was denied due process of law by virtue of the suppression of the subject statement inasmuch as the defense counsel, had he known that the State’s chief witness, Willie Mae Lee, had earlier made a prior inconsistent statement as to the complicity of Smith rather than Lee, might have chosen to ‘go to trial and submit Willie Mae Lee’s credibility to the jury in light of her prior inconsistent statement.’ * * * We have never known a case wherein an appellate court has held that matters going to the credibility of a witness are cognizable in a habeas or other post-conviction proceeding following a guilty plea, yet such is the argument successfully urged by the Attorney General in behalf of these defendants. “We know of no basis upon which the benefit of such a rule may be extended to these defendants and withheld from others. “Accordingly, we now recede from so much of our decision implicit in which is the holding that matters going to the credibility of a state’s witness are not cognizable in habeas or other post-conviction proceedings following a guilty plea. Further, we adopt the rule in this jurisdiction advanced in behalf of these defendants by the Attorney General and now hold that matters going to the credibility of a state’s witness are cognizable in habeas or”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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