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To: victim soul
"the defendant's right to know his accusers and have evidence presented against him before a trial"

Before trial all the prosecutor has to disclose to the defendant is so called Brady material, that is material that is exculpatory. Here if these two people made a statement to the government that X, not Kopp shot the doctor, the government would have to turn it over to Kopp.

If however, these two gave the government a statement that they saw Kopp shoot the doctor, that statement would not have to be disclosed to Koop, pre trial.
8 posted on 09/25/2002 10:00:43 AM PDT by APBaer
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To: APBaer
Before trial all the prosecutor has to disclose to the defendant is so called Brady material, that is material that is exculpatory.
Do you mean a defendant doesn’t have any real discovery rights, to ask for all documents related to this or that, for example?

patent  +AMDG

11 posted on 09/25/2002 8:48:02 PM PDT by patent
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