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123495P.pdf   05/28/2014  Deborah Masten  v.  United States
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  12-3495
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Murphy and Smith, Circuit Judges] Prisoner case - habeas. In a habeas where Masten produced expert testimony regarding whether an enhanced version of a videotape of her leaving the scene of the crime may have challenged the government's version of the offense, the district court did not err in rejecting Masten's claim that the government suppressed evidence in violation of Brady v. Maryland as Masten knew of the existence of the original videotape used to make the DVD shown at her trial and she chose not to view it; the prosecution reasonably believed the DVD accurately depicted the contents of the videotape and had no reason to believe the videotape contained exculpatory evidence; finally, the videotape was admitted at trial and Masten has failed to show what additional information the jury would have received from viewing the original, unenhanced version of the videotape as opposed to the DVD.