Gary Benn v. John Lambert, Superintendent of the Washington State Penitentiary

OPINION

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge.

The State of Washington, through the superintendent of the Washington State Penitentiary, appeals the district court’s decision to grant Gary Michael Benn’s ha-beas corpus petition, arguing that the district judge erred in holding that the Washington State Supreme Court decision was contrary to or involved an unreasonable application of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963), and its progeny. Because we hold that the state court’s decision that there was no Brady violation in Benn’s case constitutes an unreasonable application of…