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Second Circuit Review: ‘Brady’-Based Section 1983 Claims After Guilty Plea
February 26, 2014 read the article
Litigation partners Martin Flumenbaum and Brad Karp's Second
Circuit Review column appeared in the February 26 issue of the
New York Law Journal. The article "'Brady'-Based Section
1983 Claims After Guilty Plea," discusses Poventud v.
City of New York, in which the court, sitting en banc,
considered whether a plaintiff whose initial conviction was tainted
by disclosure violations under Brady v. Maryland
could pursue a
42 U.S.C. §1983 claim despite having pleaded guilty to lesser
offenses in a second trial. Litigation associate Austin Thompson
assisted in the preparation of this column.