Here’s a librarian trade secret: If you are sitting at the reference desk, and a man calls you asking you to read him the Brady vs. Maryland 1963 Supreme Court case ruling, you should immediately hang up.
This is not because of the content of the ruling — Brady established that prosecutors must turn over exculpatory evidence to the defense. If you want t…
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