"She reiterated to Mr. Pacheco that it was cut and dry, the investigator had prepared a false report." Under the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Brady v Maryland decision, prosecutors have a duty to disclose evidence helpful to the accused, including the credibility of a witness. Hunt said Pacheco told her not to disclose anything to defense attorneys in the unidentified case. Pacheco said there was a system set up in 2006, when Trask was district attorney, to review possible Brady violations and she did not follow that policy, he said. Hunt said in her lawsuit she did not know at the time that the same investigator was the subject of similar allegations in a case that was under review by the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office.
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Nye Frank on 24 Feb 10"The Petitioners, Lawrence E. Kennon, Mary D. Powers, and Mary L. Johnson, all three of whom are citizens of Illinois and residents of Cook County, together with Citizens Alert, the Coalition to End Police Torture and Brutality, First Defense Legal Aid, the Justice Coalition of Greater Chicago, the Cook County Bar Association, the Chicago Council of Lawyers, the Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc., the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, the Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty, the Illinois Death Penalty Moratorium Project, the National Lawyers Guild, Amnesty International, and Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, by their attorneys, Randolph N. Stone, of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic of the University of Chicago Law School, and Locke E. Bowman, of the MacArthur Justice Center, respectfully request that this Court appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of torture, perjury, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and other offenses by police officers under the command of Jon Burge at Area 2 and later Area 3 headquarters in the City of Chicago during the period from 1973 to the present."