Raynor v. State

I concur in the judgment of the Court. I write separately to provide background on the recent revision of Maryland Rule 4-263.

In April, 2003 the American College of Trial Lawyers issued its “Brady Report,” concerning the federal judiciary’s experience with the timely disclosure of information favorable to criminal defendants under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 11 and 16. The report was a critique of the problems *234associated with the implementation of the constitutional mandate laid down four decades earlier in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963).1 It…