Rosario v. Roden, No. 15-1143 (1st Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of first degree murder. The Massachusetts trial court denied Appellant’s motion for a new trial, and the Supreme Judicial Court affirmed his conviction. Appellant later filed a habeas corpus petition alleging that the Commonwealth failed to disclose a document that was evidence of a possible cooperation agreement between one prosecution witness and the Commonwealth, in violation of his right to due process. The district court denied the petition. The First Circuit affirmed, holding that, had the document been timely disclosed to the defense, the there was no reasonable probability that the result of the proceeding would have been different.
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