person who has been convicted of, or sentenced for, a public offense and who claims that: 1. The conviction or sentence was in violation of the Constitution of the United States or the Constitution or laws of this state; [or] 4. There exists evidence of material facts, not previously presented and heard, that requires vacation of the conviction or sentence in the interest of justice; may institute, without paying a filing fee, a proceeding under this chapter to secure relief. Id. § 822.2(1), (4). Harrington’s claim under section 822.2(1) was based on an alleged due process violation arising from the prosecution’s failure to turn over eight police reports to the defense during the criminal trial. See Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 87, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 1196-97, 10 L.Ed.2d 215, 218 (1963) (<HOLDING>). The same police reports, in addition to
holding that the prosecution must disclose evidence favorable to the accused that is material either to guilt or to punishment holding that is a violation of due process for the prosecution to fail to disclose evidence favorable to an accused that is material to guilt or punishment holding that the due process clause is violated if the prosecution fails to disclose material evidence that is favorable to a criminal defendant holding that suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused upon request violates due process where the evidence is material either to guilt or to punishment holding failure of prosecution to disclose evidence that may be favorable to the accused is a violation of the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment