Legal Opinion
Simmons v. Beard
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 11, 2009No. 05-9001PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
FUENTES, Circuit Judge:
Appellee-Petitioner Ernest Simmons was convicted in Pennsylvania state court of robbery and murder in the first degree, and subsequently sentenced to death. Both his direct appeal and petition for post-conviction relief were denied in state court, but the District Court granted Simmons’s habeas petition on the ground that the state prosecutors had withheld several pieces of material exculpatory evidence in violation of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963). Appellants, various Pennsylvania state officials (“the…
2Cases cited32 opinions
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- United States v. BagleySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Giglio v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Kyles v. WhitleySupreme Court of the United States · 1995
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3Cited by10 opinions
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