Jones v. Medlin Gardiner v. Medlin Lucci v. Medlin

Summary

The Supreme Court of Georgia reversed the denial of habeas relief for all three petitioners because the State failed to disclose a police report describing other armed white men threatening to shoot Black residents shortly after the murder, while the petitioners were already in custody. Although the report itself might have been inadmissible, it could have led to admissible evidence, supported an alternative-perpetrator theory, and undermined confidence in the verdict. The court rejected the separate Brady claims based on the eyewitness's habeas testimony because the habeas court's credibility findings were not clearly erroneous.