245 Ga. App. 135 - State v. Blackwell’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
February 2016
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on California v. Trombetta · Arizona v. Youngblood · Bearden v. Georgia · 119 Wash. 2d 294 - State v. Ortiz · Wellons v. State
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“We think that requiring a defendant to show bad faith on the part of the police both limits the extent of the police's obligation to preserve evidence to reasonable bounds and confines it to that class of cases where the interests of justice most clearly require it, i.e., those cases in which the police themselves by their conduct indicate that the evidence could form a basis for exonerating the defendant. We therefore hold that unless a criminal defendant can show bad faith on the part of the police, failure to preserve potentially useful evidence does not constitute a denial of due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the presence or absence of bad faith by the police for purposes of the Due Process Clause must necessarily turn on the police's knowledge of the exculpatory value of the evidence at the time it was lost or destroyed. A finding of bad faith is reserved for those cases in which the police themselves by their conduct indicate that the evidence could form a basis for exonerating the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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