Johnny M. Ruffin v. David Mitchell
HabeasCorpus
Whether the Seventh Circuit's decision creates conflict with other Circuits regarding the admissibility and materiality requirements under Brady v. Maryland
QUESTIONS PRESENTED The Seventh Circuit's Opinion has stretched The United States Supiceme Court's: Opinion in Brady v. Maryland. beyond .its logical bounds when compared . with other Circuits, regarding its grafted fourth admissibility requirement , prong onto the traditional three-prong Beady inquiry when it issue a blanket ban on inadmissible evidence -even though it will Lead to admissible evidence -, and upholding Ruffin's convictions. . 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit's decision creates conflict with other Circuits, by accepting the District Court's ruling that the Suppressed and favorable Cummings’ police report was inadmissible and not material under Brady. ; : ; 2. Whether the distiict court's deteriination contradicted established federal law by requiring that materiality be shown by a greater standard . of evidence than that required by the Supreme Court. : 3. Whether the district court failed to correctly apply the materiality | standard for suppressed impeachment material as described in Supreme . | Court precedent. 4. Whether the:district court's analysis contracted established federal . law by failing to consider the cumulative effect of the evidence withheld. ; , Based on all of this and combined with the fact thatiit is uncontested that | the evidence was suppressed and favorable, Ruffin argued that his continued ; | confinement is in violation of his constitutional rights. .