Opinion ID: 1399654
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Heading: Deletion by Detective

Text: Epperson maintains that the indictment should have been dismissed because a police detective deleted exculpatory information concerning confidential informants from his investigative report and that this deletion violated a court order to turn over such information. We disagree. A motion or objection by a defense attorney for one codefendant will not be deemed a motion or objection for the other defendant. Both attorneys must make it clear the objection is made for both defendants. Brown v. Commonwealth, 780 S.W.2d 627 (Ky.1989), cert. denied, 494 U.S. 1087, 110 S.Ct. 1825, 108 L.Ed.2d 954 (1990). In other situations, counsel for Epperson made it clear when he joined a codefendant's motion or objection. There was no notice to the trial judge that what was good for one defendant was good for another. This is essentially the same argument as raised in Hodge . It was clear that the detective indicated he would attempt to obtain the information desired and supply it to the defense and no further complaint was made. The defense did not establish that the information was deliberately withheld so as to amount to a Brady violation. See Coe v. Bell, 161 F.3d 320 (6th Cir. 1998). The mere possibility that an item of undisclosed information might have helped the defense or affected the outcome does not establish materiality in a constitutional sense so as to constitute a Brady violation. United States v. Agurs, 427 U.S. 97, 96 S.Ct. 2392, 49 L.Ed.2d 342 (1976). Epperson has not demonstrated that the alleged discovery violation was actually prejudicial or that the trial judge committed error or otherwise abused his discretion.