Ninth Circuit: USA v. Maher Obagi

Where a separate immunity deal involving a chief government witness is discovered halfway through defense closings, the genie is out of the bottle, as the govt has already crafted an approach that uses that testimony to decide the case, even where it only bolsters other witness' accounts.

Dissent: Shouldn't be a per se rule to grant Brady claims that arise after closings -- the testimony was duplicative, gov't evidence was overwhelming, and the curative instruction was strong.