Ernest Mills v. Louisiana

Whether U.S.C.A. Const. Amend. 14 requires state prosecutors to disclose material exculpatory evidence to criminal defendants before the entry of a guilty plea, particularly when a defendant has filed a motion for discovery and Brady material before entry of the guilty plea?

Whether a Brady claim following a guilty plea is legally cognizable where the suppressed evidence was the cause without which the defendant would not have entered the guilty plea?

Whether the Due Process Clause requires disclosure of material exculpatory evidence to a defendant before entry of a guilty plea a question the Supreme Court left open in Ruiz but on which federal circuits have reached divergent outcomes, and which a Louisiana decision applied in a way that forecloses a claim based on a pre-plea discovery violation.