Goff v. State
Annotate this CasePetitioner Belynda Goff was found guilty by a jury of first-degree murder in the death of her husband and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Petitioner subsequently requested that the Supreme Court reinvest jurisdiction in the trial court to consider a petition for writ of error coram nobis. In support of her petition, Petitioner contended that her defense at the time of trial was not made aware of three documents Petitioner recently discovered. Petitioner argued that the documents offered proof that someone else murdered her husband and that the State violated the requirements of Brady v. Maryland by withholding the documents from the defense. The Supreme Court denied the writ, holding that Petitioner did not show there was a reasonable probability that the outcome of the trial would have been different had any of the documents at issue been available to the defense.
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