Legal Opinion
Andrew Thomas v. Bruce Westbrooks
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 24, 2017No. 15-5399PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMerritt, J., joined by Donald, J.,
SILER, J. (pp. 668-69), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
In this Tennessee death penalty case, Petitioner Andrew Lee Thomas, Jr., ap*661peals the district court’s denial of his petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254.1 Thomas’s primary claim on appeal is that the State violated his rights under Brady v. Maryland, 378 U.S. 83, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963), when it suppressed evidence that the key witness against him had been paid $750 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation prior to trial. We agree that the prosecutor had a duty to disclose…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- United States v. BagleySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Giglio v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- United States v. AgursSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Davis v. AlaskaSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
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3Cited by13 opinions
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- Andrew Thomas v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2017
- Gary Hughbanks v. Stuart HudsonCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2021
- United States v. Benjamin GaleckiCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 2019
- Ray v. BaumanDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 2018
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