Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Mains v. United States

439 U.S. 981

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1978-11-27
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • "[e]vidence is not necessarily insufficient merely because the witness' testimony has been contradictory and the explanations therefor difficult of belief" (citation omitted)
  • “The mere possibility that an item of undisclosed information might have helped the defense, or might have affected the outcome of trial, does not establish ‘materiality’ in the constitutional sense”

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C. A. 6th Cir. Certiorari denied.