United States v. Ball

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

NEESE, District Judge.

The defendant moved pretrial, “ * * * pursuant to T.C.A. [§§] 40-2044, 40-2441, and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963) * * *,” for an order requiring certain discovery of the prosecution. Such motion lacks merit and hereby is

DENIED.

The aforecited provisions of the Tennessee Code Annotated provide no authority for discovery in a United States District Court. Brady v. Maryland (1963), 373 U.S. 83, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215,…