ALBANY – The state’s highest court declined to expand the prosecution’s Brady obligations to include allegations of misconduct brought against police witnesses in unrelated cases.
The Court of Appeals’ decision overturned a lower court ruling that defendant Mark Garrett should get a CPL 440.10 hearing to consider whether he was denied a fair trial because the detective who took his confession for the 1998 killing of a pregnant 14-year-old was facing a federal civil rights suit for coercing a confession from a defendant in an unrelated case.
