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Matthew Hudak v. Illinois

Paid petition · Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District, No. 2-18-0487 · judgment October 1, 2019

Certiorari denied · October 5, 2020
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. Whether the prosecution’s Brady obligetions allow the prosecution to deliberately suppress relevant impeachment or exculpatory material before a guilty plea, without a showing of a good faith basis for suppression?

  2. Whether this Court’s decision in United States v. Ruiz allows the prosecution to conceal exculpatory as well as impeachment material before a guilty plea?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Stephen Louis Richards
Law Office of Stephen L. Richards

For respondent
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Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 05 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Aug 19 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
  3. Jun 27 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 5, 2020)