The petitions of the day are:
15-1503
Issue: (1) Whether, under Brady v. Maryland, courts may consider information that arises after trial in determining the materiality of suppressed evidence; and (2) whether, in a case where no physical evidence inculpated petitioners, the prosecution’s suppression of information that included the identification of a plausible alternative perpetrator violated petitioners’ due process rights under Brady.
15-1504
Issue: Whether, consistent with this Court’s Brady v. Maryland jurisprudence, a court may require a defendant to demonstrate that suppressed evidence “would have led the jury to doubt virtually everything” about the government’s case in order to establish that the evidence is material.
Recommended Citation: Kate Howard, Petitions of the day, SCOTUSblog (Jul. 16, 2016, 12:00 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/07/petitions-of-the-day-29/