Mario Dion Woodward, Petitioner v. Alabama

1. Whether a state court in a postconviction proceeding may summarily deny a Brady claim for failure to meet Brady’s materiality standard based on the alleged failure to plead how the withheld evidence of an alternative perpetrator “would have countered the State’s significant evidence of guilt.”? 2. Whether a state court in a postconviction proceeding may arbitrarily apply state-law statutes of limitation and pleading requirements to bar a Brady claim based on evidence material to a capital conviction first discovered during the postconviction phase.