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Brady at large in the D.Mass.

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

From the NLJ's web version today: Federal judge considers sanctions for Boston U.S. attorney's office. The court is considering sanctions for a Brady violation. We say Brady, they say "it wasn't exonerating." Brady to us means the entire Brady doctrine from Brady to Kyles, with all the permutations. I had a heart to heart with a prosecutor on the ABA Task Force on the Prosecution and Defense Function, and, unless you say the magic words of something more than exculpatory; i.e., impeaching; they have a mental block on it from their training. They aren't necessarily being malicious; they just don't see it like we do.

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on January 27, 2009 (boomark / email).