Jackson Pens First Dissent in Evidence Case from Death Row (1)

US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson filed her first written dissent Monday, disagreeing with the court’s decision not to review the standard for evaluating certain evidence claims on appeal in an Ohio murder case.

Joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court’s newest member said the state suppressed material evidence showing its key witness had an intellectual disability that may have affected his ability to remember, perceive fact from fiction, and testify accurately in the case against Davel Chinn.

Presented with that information after Chinn was convicted and sentenced to death in the killing of Bryan Jones during a robbery ...