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38 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cas. 1 (2010-2011)

handle is hein.journals/prvw38 and id is 1 raw text is: - 1 * Previewing the Court's Entire October Calendar of Cases, including... Snyder v. Phelps Albert Snyder, father of Matthew Snyder, a Marine killed in Iraq, obtained a $5 million tort damages award from a minister and church that protested against societal tolerance towards homosexuals and the moral decay of American soci- ety by picketing at Matthew's funeral and posting material on the church website. The Supreme Court is asked to decide whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in setting aside that verdict as a violation of the minister and church's First Amendment free speech rights. Connick v. Thompson In 1985, prosecutors in the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office obtained a conviction against John Thompson for attempted armed robbery. Aided by that conviction, prosecu- tors then obtained a conviction against Thompson for capital murder. A month before his execution in 1999, investigators for Thompson discovered that prosecutors had hidden excul- patory evidence in the robbery case that exonerated him of that charge. Thompson's execution was stayed, his robbery conviction vacated, and his murder conviction eventually reversed. Thompson then sued the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office and was awarded a $14 million dollar civil rights verdict. The Court must now determine whether a district attorney's deliberate indifference to his need to train prosecutors with regard to their responsibilities under Brady v. Maryland qualifies as a § 1983 claim. /M Division for AERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION Public Education

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