In Re Rebideau

This is an appeal from a denial of post-conviction relief in Addison Superior Court in 1977. The defendant seeks to overturn a nine-year-old conviction of first degree murder for his involvement in the shooting death of Raymond Lestage in 1972. We are called upon to determine whether the defendant’s right to due process was violated by what he alleges to be the prosecutor’s knowing use of perjured testimony against him and his suppression of information about one of the murder weapons, either of which the defendant claims would have aided his cause.

The facts of this case have already been…