Cotton v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• “[H]aving established negligent government nonpreservation of evidence does not end the inquiry. We must next assess the degree of prejudice suffered by the defense[.]”
• \[H]aving established negligent government nonpreservation of evidence does not end the inquiry. We must next assess the degree of prejudice suffered by the defense[.]\
• finding any error harmless in part because the prosecutor “made no mention of [the challenged evidence] in his closing argument to the jury”
• court must consider degree of negligence or bad faith, importance of evidence lost, and evidence adduced at trial
• \The strength of the eyewitness identifications of appellant renders it unlikely that the questionable array was of sufficient materiality to establish a denial of appellant's due process rights.\
• “The strength of the eyewitness identifications of appellant renders it unlikely that the questionable array was of sufficient materiality to establish a denial of appellant‟s due process rights.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).