Opinion ID: 1704551
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Heading: Property Receipt

Text: The State argued at trial that Sireci owned two identical denim jackets. According to the State, one of these jackets was stained with the victim's blood and was recovered in an abandoned motel room near the scene of the crime. The second jacket, the State suggested, was seized by the Las Vegas Police Department from Barbara Perkins when she was arrested in Nevada. Both of these jackets were introduced at trial. Sireci now claims that the State withheld a property receipt, dated February 12, 1976, from the Orange County Sheriffs Department. According to Sireci, the property receipt demonstrates that both of his jackets were seized from Perkins at the time she was arrested in Las Vegas and, therefore, neither could have been the one found in the motel room. Contrary to Sireci's assertions, however, the property receipt only indicates that one blue denim jacket was transferred from the Las Vegas Police Department to the Orange County Sheriff's Office. The receipt in no way demonstrates that two jackets were seized from Barbara Perkins. in Las Vegas. Thus, we find that Sireci's claim as to the property receipt fails to establish a Brady violation.