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U.S. Supreme court overturns murder conviction

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washing...ned/52480076/1

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a New Orleans man's murder conviction must be reversed because prosecutors failed to reveal that the sole eyewitness to the crime had earlier said he could not identify the killer.

The decision was 8-1; Justice Clarence Thomas was the lone dissenter.
The case brings to the fore problems of prosecutors' hiding evidence and the guarantee, stemming from a 1963 Supreme Court decision, that the government must turn over evidence favorable to a defendant.