context: The State urges us to apply this "prosecution team" concept within the single agency of the Travis County District Attorney, suggesting that it was required to disclose only the Brady materials known to the office employees personally involved in the Hall prosecution. We find no support for the State's position.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 70 S.W.3d 865, 871-73
citation_a.parenthetical: duty under Brady applied despite prosecutor's lack of personal knowledge of favorable information in office files
citation_a.sentence: See Ex parte Richardson, 70 S.W.3d 865, 871-73 (Tex.Crim.App.2002) (duty under Brady applied despite prosecutor’s lack of personal knowledge of favorable information in office files); see also Giglio v. United States, 405 U.S. 150, 154, 92 S.Ct. 763, 31 L.Ed.2d 104 (1972) (recognizing that a prosecutor’s office is an “entity” and that information in the possession of one attorney in the office “must be attributed” to the office as a whole) (citing Restatement (Second) of Agency § 272 (1958)); Moore, 240 S.W.3d at 328 (“The duty to disclose under Brady arose only if the prosecutors or other members of the ‘prosecuting team’ knew of the investigation or had access to the information”).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.parenthetical: recognizing that a prosecutor's office is an "entity" and that information in the possession of one attorney in the office "must be attributed" to the office as a whole
citation_b.sentence: See Ex parte Richardson, 70 S.W.3d 865, 871-73 (Tex.Crim.App.2002) (duty under Brady applied despite prosecutor’s lack of personal knowledge of favorable information in office files); see also Giglio v. United States, 405 U.S. 150, 154, 92 S.Ct. 763, 31 L.Ed.2d 104 (1972) (recognizing that a prosecutor’s office is an “entity” and that information in the possession of one attorney in the office “must be attributed” to the office as a whole) (citing Restatement (Second) of Agency § 272 (1958)); Moore, 240 S.W.3d at 328 (“The duty to disclose under Brady arose only if the prosecutors or other members of the ‘prosecuting team’ knew of the investigation or had access to the information”).