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MUNCHINSKI v. WILSON

No. 11-3416.

694 F.3d 308 (2012)

David Joseph MUNCHINSKI v. Harry WILSON, Warden of the State Correctional Institute of Fayette; Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed: September 11, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Noah Geary [Argued], Washington, PA, for Appellee.

Gregory J. Simatic [Argued], Office of Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Appeals & Legal Services Section, Pittsburgh, PA, for Appellant.

Before: SMITH and JORDAN, Circuit Judges and RAKOFF, Senior District Judge.

OPINION

SMITH, Circuit Judge.

In 1986, David Munchinski was convicted of two counts of first-degree homicide and two counts of second-degree homicide arising out of a pair of murders that occurred in 1977 in Bear Rocks, Pennsylvania (the "Bear Rocks Murders" or the "murders"). In the years following his conviction, Munchinski discovered that prosecutors had withheld from his counsel almost a dozen articles of exculpatory evidence. After unsuccessfully petitioning...

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