John Paul Anderson v. State of South Carolina and the Attorney General of the State of South Carolina

South Carolina appeals from a judgment of the district court granting a writ of habeas corpus to John Paul Anderson. 1 The district court found that Anderson was denied due process because the prosecutor at his murder trial withheld specifically and generally requested materials in violation of United States v. Augers, 427 U.S. 97, 96 S.Ct. 2392, 49 L.Ed.2d 342 (1976), and Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963). We affirm. 2

Anderson was convicted in 1965 of murdering his wife. The prosecution’s theory was that Anderson held his wife under water and drowned her.…