Prosecutor withholding evidence
Baillargeon v. Brendan T. Carroll, Esq.
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Dennis Baillargeon asks whether a prosecutor violated his constitutional right to fair process by not telling a trial judge that previously available video evidence was no longer available while the judge was deciding whether to delay the trial.
- What's at stake
- Baillargeon says the omission left him unable to seek a delay based on the video's unavailability; the Supreme Court has not decided whether that violated his rights.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
His petition is pending and has been distributed for a conference; that step does not itself mean the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.
The dispute arose during a New Hampshire criminal trial, as the judge considered whether to delay the proceedings.
Question presented
Whether a criminal defendant's due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment are violated when a prosecutor, in direct response to the trial court's inquiry into what remains to be disclosed to the defense, gives an answer that omits material information the prosecutor already possesses — here, that previously available video evidence had become unavailable — where that omission occurs at the precise moment the court is deciding whether to grant a continuance, and forecloses the defendant's ability to seek that continuance on its true and more compelling ground.
What happens next
The petition was distributed for a conference scheduled for Nov. 13, 2026, but that does not mean the Court agreed to hear it. No argument or decision date is set.
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Sources
Primary materials plus reporting. Best-effort analysis: this explainer relies on a mix of primary materials and trusted secondary sources. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.