Now forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review, my latest work rethinks how information should get shared in criminal cases, and why we need to look beyond the celebrated Brady doctrine if we are serious about improving the fairness of criminal discovery. 🧵🔽
Justin Murray
New paper alert!
My latest - "Brady's Shadow" - is now on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Still a work in progress—would love your thoughts.
It's about how one spectacularly failed doctrine somehow cannibalized other, more promising avenues for criminal discovery.đź§µ
<p><i>Scholars have spent sixty years documenting </i>Brady v. Maryland’<i>s failures—its materiality standard that licenses suppression of exculpatory evidence