Gary Richard Whitton sits on Florida’s death row after a jury convicted him of murder based partly on testimony from a jailhouse informant. But that informant lied to the jury, and prosecutors knew it. Now the Supreme Court has stepped in to clarify when a trial includes false testimony how courts figure out if that lie actually changed the outcome. The answer matters not just for Whitton, but for how courts handle convictions across the country.

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