Exculpatory Evidence: Evidence that the District Attorney may possess that could establish your innocence.
EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE - Evidence that the Prosecutor may possess that could establish a person's innocence or be used by his or her attorney to prove some fact that could cast doubt upon his or her guilt.
Maryland, the prosecution's failure to hand over this exculpatory evidence is a violation of a defendant's due-process rights, but if the defendant is convicted, this error won't necessarily result in a reversal of the conviction.
to allow the other to have access to its witnesses and to certain types of evidence before the trial. In criminal cases, the judge has the discretionary power to order discovery; in any event, the prosecutor must release all exculpatory evidence on ...
 See also: Court, Evidence, Case, Conviction, Attorney
  
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