Opinion ID: 2782925
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Chief Deputy Whitby’s Account

Text: The testimony of Chief Deputy Whitby corroborates Roland’s account of their interaction. According to Whitby, shortly after the election in early 2009 he spoke with AUSA Morehead. She spontaneously brought up the subject of Plaintiff, asking if he was still “doing cases” for the WCSD. Id. at 1272. When told that he was, Morehead advised Whitby that federal prosecutors would decline any case from Plaintiff because he had a “Giglio problem” that would require disclosure to defendants of evidence of his lack of veracity. Id. (In Giglio v. United States, 405 U.S. 150, 154 (1972), the Supreme Court 8 held that prosecutors should have disclosed to the defense information that contradicted the principal witness’s testimony that he had received no promise of immunity from prosecution if he testified against the defendant.) Whitby reported the Giglio issue to Sheriff Ash and Undersheriff Roland.