Case: Brady V. Maryland 373

In the case, Brady v. Maryland 373 U.S. 83, Certiorari was granted to a decision of the Court of Appeals of Maryland to consider whether petitioner was denied a federal right when the appeals court restricted its grant of a new murder trial to the question of punishment, leaving the determination of guilt undisturbed. The appeals court granted a retrial after holding that suppression of evidence by the state violated petitioner's rights under the Due Process Clause, U.S. Constitutional Amendment XIV (Law School Case Briefs, 2013). Furthermore, there was a judgement that had granted the petitioner a new murder trial that was solely based on the issue of his punishment. Since the petitioner was convicted of murder and then sentenced to death in his first trail with the Maryland Court, the petitioner was then informed that the Maryland Courts had withheld a statement that indicated that another individual had admitted that exact homicide. What the Supreme Court had concluded from this case was that, because of the suppression of the evidence was in favorable to an accused upon the request that violated the Due Process Clause required the court to a …show more content…
Agurs, the Supreme Court had expanded the rule by recognizing a duty to disclose exculpatory information even in the absence of a specific request for it, and the prosecutor failed to disclose this information that violated the defendants due process clause. In this case the female defendant testified self-defense with the stabling of her male acquaintance in a hotel room. She was then convicted of second degree murder. After the conviction of her trail the defendant had learned that the prosecutor failed to disclose this information at the trial of the victim (male acquaintance) having guilty pleas to assault and weapons possession charges. The prosecution failed to mention to the court and jury of the victims’ previous criminal background in the trial (Judge,