Granger v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. ““By whatever description, ‘deal,’ ‘arrangement,’ ‘or tacit understanding,’ the fact is that the State agreed to reward Mary Lou Anderson for her testimony by reducing her death sentence to a term of years. This was known to the presiding judge, the prosecutor, [Anderson’s] defense attorney and Anderson. Yet Anderson was allowed to mislead the jury by denying that this played any part in her motivation to testify against appellant ... “Although cross-examined about her motives, Anderson did not equivocate. As such, counsel for appellant was unable to develop the extent of any deal between the State and Anderson. Furthermore, in allowing Anderson to testify that no deal or expectation existed, the State recklessly mislead the jury about Anderson’s motives and prevented an effective cross-examination of Anderson. “This situation brings the case within the rules announced in Burkhalter, [supra, 493 S.W.2d 214 ] and Giglio [supra, 92 S.Ct. 763 ]. As such we find that the non-disclosure of the arrangements made between the State and the witness Anderson deprived appellant of his right to effective cross-examination.” 653 S.W.2d at 876 (emphasis supplied).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Granger v. State