United States v. Lorenzo Osorio

WOODLOCK, District Judge.

This appeal from a criminal conviction presents, inter alia, the recurring problem of belated government compliance with its duty to provide timely disclosure of exculpatory evidence. What the defendant accurately characterizes as the government’s “astounding negligence” in breach of that duty does not, in the circumstances of this case, require a reversal of the conviction. It does, however, provide an occasion to consider how the adverse effects of the problem of governmental failure to make timely disclosure of exculpatory evidence may be ameliorated or eliminated.…