Disciplinary Assignment Part 1

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Since 1963, a series of United States Supreme Court case decisions have clarified that in criminal cases, prosecutors must disclose to the defense evidence favorable to the defendant. This includes information that may be used to impeach the credibility of government witnesses, including law enforcement officers. These decisions mean that police officers who have documented histories of lying in official matters are liabilities to their agencies, and these histories may render them unable to testify credibly.

Part 1: Please write a professional memorandum summarizing the main issues that are involved in the following United States Supreme Court cases. You must have at least 2.5 pages not including your title page.

Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963)

Giglio v. United States, 405 U. S. 150 (1972)

United States v. Agurs, 427 U. S. 97 (1976)

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Defense Litigation in the USA – Outline
Thesis statement: The right to due process forces prosecutions to reveal all evidence
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Brady v Maryland: ordered prosecutions to reveal all exculpatory evidence
Giglio v USA: extended the Brady rule o plea deals of prosecution witnesses
US v Argus: held that that the history of the defendant is material


MEMO
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SUBJECT: Defense Litigation in the USA
Brady v Maryland
The decision in 1983 is a landmark one because the Supreme Court helped defenses all over the
country, for years to come, to have the right to information that they previously could not get. It
n Braddy v Maryland, the court decided that the prosecution must forward to the defense all the
evidential information which can exonerate a defendant or respondent. In other words, the court
decreed that the prosecution could no longer hold on to exculpatory evidence. Before that
decision, the prosecution in a case took their matters as adversarial in the strict sense, all that
mattered was the conviction.
In the case, Leo Brady and Donald Boblit were in the docks for murder....


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