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DA'S OFFICE Dogged By Discovery

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“It is the mandate of the judge to protect the constitutional rights of the _______ who are before them,”
Suffolk County District Attorney's Office has withheld and destroyed ________ in the ongoing trial of John Bittrolff.
A 1963 Supreme decision requires _______ to turn over evidence favorable to defendants.
Booker will serve 5 years in prison, instead of the 25 years to life he faced on the _____ charge.
Booker pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted ________.
Under the Brady rule, any evidence that goes towards ______ a defendant’s guilt, that would reduce a defendant’s potential sentence.
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The Brady Rule, named for Brady v. Maryland (1963), requires prosecutors to disclose materially ________ evidence in the government’s possession to the defense.
Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project, which has helped _______ dozens of people who were falsely convicted of murder, found the behavior of the district attorney’s office “extremely troubling.”
Brady is all too frequently_____, not only in Spota’s office, but throughout the country,” said Richard Klein, a criminal justice professor at Touro Law Center in Central Islip.
Lawyers and legal observers note that Suffolk has had a flurry of cases in which prosecutors were accused of _____ evidence in recent years.