9th Cir.
11-17678

The court of appeals reversed a district court judgment and remanded the action with directions. The court held that a California appellate court applied a harmlessness standard contrary to that required by Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264 (1959), when it deemed harmless a prosecutor’s elicitation of, and failure to correct, a police detective’s false testimony that a defendant rather than his attorney requested that participants in a lineup wear a scar-covering bandage.