Perspective
Sep. 23, 2010
Post-Conviction Discovery Rules Change for the Worse
The state Supreme Court has essentially neutered California's post-conviction discovery statute, by Maurice Possley and Kathleen Ridolfi of the Northern California Innocence Project.
"(W)e are left with the nagging concern that material favorable to the defense may never emerge from secret government files."
-United States v. Oxman, 740 F.2d 1298, 1310 (3d Cir. 1984), vacated sub nom. United States v. Plfaumer, 473 U.S. 922 (1985)
Nearly 50 years after the U.S. Supreme Court decided Brady v. M...
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