Robert Wayne Grant v. Noah L. Alldredge, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
498 F.2d 376 · 1974
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Blake v. Kemp (1985), United States v. Tramunti (1974)
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Mahan v. Howell · United States v. Miller · United States v. Polisi
Most-quoted passages
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“was not able to pick a photograph of this defendant [Grant] from a spread of fourteen individuals, as the man who robbed the bank,” id. at 380 ; it did not reveal the teller’s identification of Walsh. Not surprisingly, the Second Circuit found this disclosure inadequate under Brady . 11 . In seven of the files, victims could not identify one or another of the defendants. Even if the fingerprint theory had not been removed from the case, the inference to be drawn from a particular victim's inability to identify a defendant is "of a neutral nature” and does not constitute evidence "obviously exculpatory” or "clearly supportive of innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“infer from the failure of defense counsel, when surprised at trial, to seek time to gather other information on [the suppressed evidence], that defense counsel would have by-passed the opportunity had the prosecutor apprised him of the [evidence] at a time when the defense was in a reasonable pre-trial position to evaluate carefully all the implications of that information. Given the time for preparation which counsel was denied by the belated disclosure, it seems to us counsel might have pursued a course of inquiry which would have resulted in ferreting out the relevant . . . information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A full disclosure could have, indeed probably would have, led to defense discovery of all the information involving Walsh. That information, in the aggregate, could then have been used by Grant’s attorney to support a theory that it was likely that Walsh had committed the crime. Such a defense, it seems to us, could have ‘induced a reasonable doubt in the minds of enough jurors to avoid a conviction.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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