Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Walker v. Consumers Power Co.

98 L. Ed. 2d 661

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1988-01-11
Topic
general

assessment of the materiality of the suppressed evidence depends in part on the strength or fragility of the state’s case as a whole | assessment of the materiality of the suppressed evidence depends in part on the strength or fragility of the state's case as a whole | court stated Michigan has not extended Toussaint to promotions; plaintiff's claim also failed for insufficient evidence | because jurors believe that polygraph examinations are accurate and that witnesses reveal the truth when undergoing the examination, prosecution committed material Brady violation by withholding statement given during polygraph test that was inconsistent with later statement at trial

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C. A. 6th Cir. Certiorari denied.