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Does Brady v. Maryland require the State to obtain and produce to the defense all available prison or other incarceration or institutional files comprising Brady evidence relating to an incarcerated or institutionalized person who is expected to be the star witness in a criminal case?
QUESTIONS PRESENTED A. Does Brady v. Maryland require the State to obtain and produce to the defense all available prison or other incarceration or institutional files comprising Brady evidence relating to an incarcerated or institutionalized person who is expected to be the star witness in a criminal case? B. Did the Alabama courts wrongfully extend District Attorney v. Osborne by holding that Brady never applies to the postconviction context, even when a Brady violation deprived the petitioner of a fair trial, and where that fair-trial violation was perpetuated by the State in the postconviction process? (iii)