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On Trial for Their Lives: The Hidden Costs of Wrongful Capital Prosecutions in North Carolina
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This Source Verification Page documents the Center for Death Penalty Litigation report On Trial for Their Lives: The Hidden Costs of Wrongful Capital Prosecutions in North Carolina, cited in Claim III of the Supplemental Motion. The report provides supplemental authority documenting wrongful capital prosecutions in North Carolina and includes a discussion of the Glen Edward Chapman case as an example of prosecutorial misconduct, suppressed exculpatory evidence, and wrongful conviction. It is included to provide additional context supporting the allegations presented in Paragraph 121 of the Supplemental Motion.
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On Trial for Their Lives: The Hidden Costs of Wrongful Capital Prosecutions in North Carolina
Author(s)
The Center for Death Penalty Litigation
Publication
On Trial for Their Lives: The Hidden Costs of Wrongful Capital Prosecutions in North Carolina
Publication Date
June 2015
Verification Source
Original Center for Death Penalty Litigation report obtained and reviewed.
Source Location
The Center for Death Penalty Litigation
Highlighted Pages
Title Page, 26–27, 36–38
Referenced in the Supplemental Motion
Page 58 - 59, Paragraph: 121
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May's allegation that North Carolina courts have granted post-conviction relief where prosecutors
failed to disclose material impeachment evidence concerning key prosecution witnesses. The
Jonathon Hoffman case is cited as an example in which the prosecution concealed benefits
provided to a principal witness, including immunity from federal prosecution and financial
compensation, depriving the defense of material impeachment evidence. May relies upon Hoffman
to illustrate that the concealment of material impeachment evidence affecting witness credibility
has resulted in the vacatur of convictions and subsequent exoneration in North Carolina.
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