United States Tenth Circuit

Defendant's drug distribution conviction is reversed where the government failed to disclose evidence of a confidential informant's work as a DEA informant prior to the drug transaction at issue, and that evidence would have been material to the impeachment of the witness.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/30/2009
• Published 06/30/2009

Judges

• PAUL KELLY, JR., Circuit Judge., Before KELLY and LUCERO, Circuit Judges, and EAGAN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Joe M. Romero, Jr., Albuquerque, NM, for Defendant-Appellant., Terri J. Abernathy, Assistant United States Attorney, (Gregory J. Fouratt, United States Attorney, with her on the brief) Las Cruces, NM, for Plaintiff-Appellee.