State v. Montgomery

BRANCH, Justice.

Defendant contends that he was denied his constitutional right by due process by the investigative methods of the police officers who allegedly coerced State’s witnesses to give perjured testimony against him. Defendant relies upon a line of cases represented by Mooney v. Holohan, 294 U.S. 103, 79 L.Ed. 791, 55 S.Ct. 340. In Mooney, the petitioner sought relief under the Federal habeas corpus act alleging that his due process rights were violated because the State knowingly used perjured testimony against him and deliberately suppressed evidence which would have refuted the…