The Nueces County District Attorney's office filed to dismiss the case against Naranjo, citing: The defense wanted a mistrial with no chance for a retrial but prosecutors said there was “no factual or legal basis” to declare a mistrial. Rittenhouse's attorneys had requested a mistrial based on several issues, including claims that prosecutors acted in bad faith and that the state gave them an inferior copy of a video that may have been a key piece of evidence in the case, according to the Associated Press. is no longer a D.A.'Ī Brady violation also became a point of contention in the 2021 trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. 'And, you know, he went to prison and he spent a considerable amount of time in prison before that particular case - (it) was found out that D.A. Obviously, he was not the perpetrator of the crime,' said Perkins. A prosecutor who deliberately withheld evidence of Michael Morton's innocence - DNA evidence. 'Since Brady, we've had the Michael Morton Actin Texas, which actually involved overt malfeasance,' Perkins said. He was later exonerated in 2011 after DNA evidence revealed that someone else had murdered his wife. In 1987, Michael Morton was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Since 1963, Texas has had a major case that involved not turning over the proper evidence. '.at the very least we know that the police department had this phone and apparently had done a data dump on, and was able to obtain information from the phone.' 'During the course of the development of the evidence of the case, they discovered that there was a cell phone that they had in possession.' he said. Perkins said the evidence withheld in the Naranjo case is a cellphone which allegedly belonged to Rice. KRIS 6 News reached out to Perkins, who is not involved in the case but is familiar with the facts, because Naranjo's attorney was asked to not comment on the case by his client. 'They're supposed to provide that to us as a part of their ongoing obligation to provide all the evidence to the defense.'

'We as defense attorneys are entitled to all the evidence, good, bad, or otherwise, and we don't even have to ask for it,' said local attorney Eric Perkins. In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that withholding evidence, whether it be on purpose or accidental, violates due process. When evidence is not properly provided in a case like this, a Brady violation is possible. Medical Examiner's office determined Rice died of multiple gunshot wounds.ĭocuments obtained by KRIS 6 News now suggest evidence related to this case was not properly turned over to defense attorneys. In July 2020, 24-year-old Jared Naranjo was charged with the shooting murder of 30-year-old Frederick Rice on the 4500 block of Mokry Drive after the Nueces Co. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A possible violation of what has become known as the 'Brady Rule' has become a point of concern for those involved in a recent Corpus Christi murder case.

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