Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Fahy v. Connecticut · Moore v. Illinois · Giles v. State of Maryland · Rosenberg v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“prerequisite to relief for nondisclosure of required information is that the defense did not have independent knowledge of and access to the evidence in question at the time of trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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