Ketanji Brown Jackson, in her first written opinion as a Supreme Court justice, said she would have sided with an inmate who argued that Ohio suppressed evidence that might have helped him at trial
The full court declined to take up appeal brought by Davel Chinn, who shot and killed a man named Brian Jones as a part of an attempted robbery. Chinn was sentenced to death after another man, an accomplice named Marvin Washington, identified him for police. But after his conviction, Chinn argued that the state had violated a 1963 case called Brady v. Maryland, when it failed to disclose Washington’s juvenile records that indicated Washington had a “moderate range” of intellectual disability.
Jackson wrote her first written opinion – a dissent – saying that there was “no dispute” that the state had “suppressed exculpatory evidence” and questioned how the lower courts had applied the so called “materiality standard.” She said that to prove a violation of Brady, a defendant has a “low burden” to show the “reasonable probability” of a different outcome.
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