A judge properly determined that a Brady violation occurred when prosecutors failed to tell the defense that the key police witness against a murder defendant was accused of securing a false confession in an unrelated case, a state appeals panel determined.
It was “favorable to the defense and material” to defendant Gabriel Hubbard’s case that Suffolk County Police Detective Ronald Tavares, who testified that Hubbard made admissions to him about committing the murder, also was named in an ongoing federal court action for allegedly coercing a confession of criminal behavior from a cab driver who accused an off-duty county police officer of shooting him.
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