The court of appeals affirmed an order of the district court. The court held that police inspectors who placed in their file but did not disclose to a prosecutor exculpatory information that defendants were not guilty of a murder, in contravention of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), were not entitled to either absolute or qualified immunity in a suit by the defendants under 42 U.S.C. §1983.
John Tennison and Antoine Goff served nearly thirteen years in state prison for the murder of Roderick Shannon, of which both subsequently were judicially declared factually innocent. They were released from custody after the district court’s grant of Tennison’s petition on habeas corpus.
