Opinion ID: 2306140
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Heading: Police Investigation of Witnesses

Text: Neither does the government's failure to disclose that two of the government's trial witnesses had been investigated by the police violate Brady. Franklin argues that the fact that two of the government's trial witnesses have been under investigation should have been disclosed, and that he should have been allowed to cross examine the witnesses on this issue as it raised possible motive to curry favor with the government in testifying in this proceeding. Franklin concedes, however, that he stumbled upon the information during trial, and he does not make clear when exactly he discovered this information or whether there was adequate time to use the information for impeachment purposes. Because the government's failure to disclose the fact that two witnesses under investigation fails to create a reasonable doubt about the appellants' guilt when evaluated in the context of the entire record, Franklin has failed to establish the level of materiality required for a finding of prejudice. Strickler, supra, 527 U.S. at 280, 119 S.Ct. 1936; Agurs, supra, 427 U.S. at 112, 96 S.Ct. 2392. [7]