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The Board of Directors adopted a resolution on the Brady Checklists.
Letter from current and former judges, prosecutors, law enforcement, defense attorneys, and others to members of Congress on the need for reform and clarification of federal criminal discovery obligations.
Prosecutors in the Orleans Parish, La., district attorney’s office deliberately withheld exculpatory evidence from the plaintiff, a former defendant in a criminal case, in violation of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and the office was found liable for failure to train its prosecutors in their Brady obligations. Brief argues that a “single violation” is sufficient to incur municipal liability (“Canton liability”) for failure to train prosecutors in their Brady disclosure obligations.
