Angelo Cantone v. Superintendent, New York Correctional Facility at Green Haven, and Robert Abrams, Attorney General of the State of New York

TENNEY, Senior District Judge.

Respondents (“the State”) take this appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Whitman Knapp, Judge, granting a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1982). Petitioner Angelo Cantone (“Cantone”) claimed below that the State’s failure to disclose certain information constituted a violation of due process under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963), and Mooney v. Holohan, 294 U.S. 103, 55 S.Ct. 340, 79 L.Ed. 791 (1935). Fur ther, Cantone claimed that…