United States Fourth Circuit

Death row inmate's Brady claim was properly rejected where compelling evidence showed that the two women were murdered by the same person, and implicated him as that person. Production of undisclosed evidence identifying other, initial crime suspects would not have changed the result of his trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/17/2008
• Published 12/17/2008

Judges

• Before TRAXLER, SHEDD, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Paul MacAllister Green, Durham, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Valerie Blanche Spalding, North Carolina Department of Justice, Capital Litigation, Federal Habeas Corpus Section, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Jonathan E. Broun, Center for Death Penalty Litigation, Durham, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Roy Cooper, Attorney General of North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellees.