State v. Jiminez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 1 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. ““Constitutional materiality requires that there be a showing that the suppressed or destroyed evidence is vital to the issues of whether the defendant is guilty of the charge and whether there is a fundamental unfairness that requires the Court to set aside the defendant’s conviction. A corollary of this proposition is, ‘The mere possibility that an item of undisclosed information might have helped the defense, or might have affected the outcome of the trial, does not establish “materiality” in the constitutional sense.’ ””

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