Whether the suppression of evidence of inducements provided to Commonwealth witnesses violates Brady v. Maryland, where the defense could have used that evidence to throw the reliability of the investigation into doubt and to sully the credibility of the police

QUESTION PRESENTED In de novo review of a Brady claim, where the Commonwealth suppressed evidence of inducements provided to its witnesses, may a court find the suppression immaterial without considering whether “the defense could thus have used [the suppressed evidence] to throw the reliability of the investigation into doubt and to sully the credibility of [the police]” under Kyles v. Whitley, 514 U.S. 419, 447 (1995)? i