Justices argued the ruling violated the inmate's constitutional rights.
Justices of the US Supreme Court pose for their official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on October 7, 2022. - Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito and Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
According to Jackson's letter, Brown admitted to being involved in an initial assault of a prison guard but maintained he wasn't present when Knapps was killed. Barry Edge, another defendant in the trial, confessed to a fellow inmate that only Edge and fellow inmate Jeffrey Clark made the decision to kill Knapps, backing up Brown's claim as he did not identify Brown as being present at the murder.
"Had Brown's jury been presented with the confession, there is a reasonable probability that at least one juror might have viewed Brown's culpability in a different light," Jackson wrote in the letter. However, SCOTUS overruled the state judge's decision because the majority of the justices believed that the information wouldn't have spared Brown from the jury's decision.
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