context: Without Williams's statement, the defendant was denied a "substantial factual basis for contending to the jury that [a witness] misidentified him." The Commonwealth should have done the same once it had been put on actual notice by defense counsel of the request for specific favorable evidence.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 514 U.S. 419, 437
citation_a.parenthetical: "the individual prosecutor has a duty to learn of any favorable evidence known to the others acting on the government's behalf in the case, including the police"
citation_a.sentence: See also Kyles v. Whitley, 514 U.S. 419, 437 (1995) (“the individual prosecutor has a duty to learn of any favorable evidence known to the others acting on the government’s behalf in the case, including the police”).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 966 F.2d 1500, 1504
citation_b.parenthetical: "Where . . . there is an explicit request for an apparently very easy examination, and a non-trivial prospect that the examination might yield material exculpatory information," prosecution has obligation to search possible sources for such information, including files of another agency
citation_b.sentence: See, e.g., United States v. Brooks, 966 F.2d 1500, 1504 (D.C. Cir. 1992) (“Where . . . there is an explicit request for an apparently very easy examination, and a non-trivial prospect that the examination might yield material exculpatory information,” prosecution has obligation to search possible sources for such information, including files of another agency).