Aalbue v. Flaherty

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that negligent failure to preserve evidence does not rise to level of due process violation
• concluding spoliation instruction was not required where defendant failed to establish potentially useful evidence destroyed in bad faith
• stating that spoliation involves “potentially useful evidence”
• “A defendant must affirmatively show that the lost evidence was favorable and material to his defense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).