Opinion ID: 2320829
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Disclosure of Photographs

Text: In his previous appeal to this Court, L'Heureux did not argue, as he does now, that the state violated his constitutional right to due process by failing to disclose photographs that the Rehoboth police took of the tire tracks on L'Heureux's lawn when they responded to the vandalism of his home on November 10, 1989. L'Heureux asserts that these photographs were given to the Pawtucket police department before trial and that the Pawtucket police department, with the actual or imputed knowledge of the prosecution, then kept the photographs from defense counsel because the photographs would have established that Faria's vehicle was the source of the tire tracks. Assuming that to be true, namely that Faria's father's truck's tires matched the tire marks on L'Heureux's lawn, would that justify his cold-blooded shooting and killing of Faria? L'Heureux obviously cites to no authority to support his due process contention about the photographs because none exists.