Prosecutorial misconduct in death penalty cases: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the state may not suppress evidence that is material to guilt or punishment

Authors

Richard L. Wiener, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Roni Reiter-Palmon, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-2004

Publication Title

Monitor on Psychology

Volume

35

Issue

6

First Page

87

Last Page

87

Abstract

n April of 1980, police found the body of Richard Whitehead outside a small town in eastern Texas. Witnesses told police that they had seen Delma Banks in Whitehead's automobile several days earlier and had heard gunshots early in the morning shortly after the sighting. Informant Robert Farr told police that Banks was traveling back to his home in eastern Texas from Dallas, where he had visited Charles Cook, an associate of his, to secure a weapon. The sheriff stopped Banks' car and found a handgun. The sheriff then retrieved a second weapon from Mr. Cook's home and determined that it was the gun used in the Whitehead shooting.

Comments

© 2004 by the American Psychological Association.

This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record. The final version can be found at http://www.apa.org/monitor/jun04/jn.aspx.

Recommended Citation

Wiener, Richard L. and Reiter-Palmon, Roni, "Prosecutorial misconduct in death penalty cases: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the state may not suppress evidence that is material to guilt or punishment" (2004). Psychology Faculty Publications. 63.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/psychfacpub/63