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Charge dismissed for inadvertent ‘Brady’ violation

Even though late disclosure of favorable evidence was an inadvertent oversight by prosecutors, a federal judge says the omission constituted suppression of Brady material that required dismissal of a firearm-related charge against an accused drug kingpin. The recently disclosed video of an interview with a co-defendant undermined the government’s contention that the defendant obtained guns to ...