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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 6 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from United States v. Dale Dennis Dunn.

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1 United States v. Dale Dennis Dunn Anchor
ca8 · 1988
green “the government has no affirmative obligation to discover potentially exculpatory information which it neither possessed nor of which it was aware” 3
2 United States v. Thomas W. Tierney
ca8 · 1991
green “affirmative duty ... to take action to discover information which it does not possess.” 3

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