Hilden Mendez v. Christopher Artuz, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility

Respondent Christopher Artuz appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Lawrence M. McKenna, Judge), granting a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 to petitioner Hilden Mendez on the ground that his due process rights under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963), were violated. Mendez had been convicted by a jury of, inter alia, the attempted murder of Johnny Rodriguez and the murder of a second individual. The District Court, in granting the writ of habeas corpus, found that New York State…