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Harridge v. State

Prosecutor violated Brady by not telling the vehicular homicide defendant that preliminary tests showed the presence of drugs in the victim's urine.

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Around midnight on May 17, 1998, twenty-year-old David Harridge was driving his pickup truck eastbound on Highway 96 in Houston County. At the same time and on the same highway, Phyllis Smith and her uncle, Tony Ray, were heading westbound in their car. Smith was driving. As the vehicles approached each other, Harridge’s truck crossed over the road’s center line and collided with Smith and Ray’s car. Smith was killed and Ray was injured in the collision.

As a result of the accident, the state charged Harridge with driving under the influence of alcohol to the extent that he was a less safe driver, failing to maintain his lane, vehicular homicide in the first degree for causing Smith’s death while driving under the influence of alcohol, causing serious injury by vehicle to Ray while driving under the influence of alcohol, and possessing alcohol while under the age of twenty-one. Harridge denied the charges, and the case was tried before a jury.

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