Legal Opinion
William B. Barbee v. Warden, Maryland Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided April 29, 1964No. 9063PublishedCited by 319 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.
The appellant contends that his conviction in a Maryland state court should be set aside on federal habeas corpus because the prosecutor failed, either through lack of his personal knowledge or for some other reason, to disclose at the trial potentially exculpatory evidence in the possession of the police, thereby causing prejudice to the appellant.
On April 12, 1957, William Barbee was arrested for shooting Jimmy McG'^e a few days earlier. The police gained possession of a .32 calibre revolver which, according to admissions made by Barbee to the police and repeated at…
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