The U.S. Supreme Court took the New Orleans prosecutor’s office to the woodshed, scolding its lawyer for what one justice said was a long history of accusations that the office has ignored the right of defendants to receive exculpatory evidence before trial.
Justice after justice admonished Assistant District Attorney Donna Andrieu on Tuesday for her office’s failure in the case before the court to turn over what they viewed as evidence that could have changed the course of the trial. “Surely it should have been turned over,” Justice Antonin Scalia said at one point. “Why don’t you give that up?”
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