The landmark 1963 Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland requires federal prosecutors to disclose all exculpatory evidence prior to a trial. In 2002, after the government began its case against Rice, it provided the defense with about seventy-five hundred pages of documents, along with audiotapes and videotapes. Deirdre Enright began to piece together that those files were only a fraction of the key documents involved: one document would reference another not included in the files, or a twenty-seven-page file would be missing half its pages. Enright began keeping a list of what was missing. In
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