State v. Williams
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The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the judgment of the trial court convicting Defendant of murdering a deputy sheriff and sentencing Defendant to life imprisonment, holding that there was no error.
After his conviction, Defendant filed a motion for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence. In the motion, Defendant asserted that a newly discovered disciplinary report concerning a member of the law enforcement team that arrested him could have been used as impeachment evidence at his trial. The trial court denied the motion. The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed, holding (1) Defendant failed to show the disciplinary report to him was favorable to him in the first instance; and (2) therefore, Defendant failed to show a reasonable probability that the report would have produced a different verdict at trial if it had been admitted into evidence.
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