Opinion ID: 77398
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Text: 4 The issue in this case involves an alleged violation of Giglio focusing on the testimony of Baker, a cellmate with Occhicone after the murders of the Artzners. Baker had been paroled from an original grand theft conviction. While on parole, he committed another grand theft (herein referred to as the recent grand theft), was arrested, and shared a jail cell with Occhicone. Occhicone made an incriminating statement to Baker, about which Baker testified both in a deposition and at Occhicone's trial. The Giglio issue involved the agreement between the prosecution and Baker for Baker to testify against Occhicone in exchange for the prosecution's recommendation that he receive probation on the recent grand theft charge. In the state collateral proceedings, the state circuit judge found that Baker's testimony at Occhicone's trial that he did not have a deal with the prosecution with respect to his sentence on the recent grand theft charge was untruthful. In so concluding, the state circuit judge found that the public record in Baker's recent grand theft case indicated that he did in fact receive probation as a result of his agreement with the State to testify in defendant's trial. Thus, the issue in the state collateral proceeding, as well as the issue in the instant appeal, boiled down to whether the State's failure to correct this untruthful testimony was material under Giglio. 5 However, before addressing the Giglio materiality issue, we must determine the scope of our review. Thus, we address first whether the State courts applied the correct standard of materiality, and our inquiry leads us to conduct a de novo review. Then we discuss the precise standard of materiality. Finally, we apply the standard.