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Brady Violations Result in Habeas Relief for Pennsylvania Death Row Prisoner
Loaded on July 9, 2014
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2014, page 34
Filed under:
Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct,
Habeas Corpus,
Death Row.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
Brady Violations Result in Habeas Relief for Pennsylvania Death Row Prisoner
by David Reutter
To correct a “grave miscarriage of justice,” Pennsylvania U.S. District Court Judge Anita Brody granted a writ of habeas corpus to a state prisoner and vacated his conviction and death sentence for a murder that “in ...
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